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No one should believe that Ilhan Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban. Omar demonstrably did not say what she’s been accused of having said; what she did say was true...

World military expenditure in 2020 is estimated to have been $1981 billion, the highest level since 1988 — and world military expenditure in 2020 was 2.6 per cent higher in real terms than in 2019 and 9.3 per cent higher than in 2011.

The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.

Almost singular these days, the Times media critic does a salient institutional self-criticism of a wayward reporter and the indulgence of top management in fostering a string of poorly sourced when not fabricated international news stories.

For the signatories of the Abraham Accords, peace means squashing people's freedoms to unlock unfettered exchanges of technology and weapons. This “peace treaty” is a strategic realignment against Iran and a blueprint for increasing authoritarianism.

With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over. The relationship between wealth and favorable outcomes only works when that wealth is invested in the many, not the few.