Even by their own measures, almost all these small-scale measures were a resounding failure. No matter how much money donors ...

Dylan Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley University. A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization.

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This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French ...

When Hamas-led gunmen massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, several fundamental conceptions, together with the Gaza fence, collapsed. Among them were the reliability of Israel’s highly regarded ...

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I live in Beirut in an area called the Corniche that runs along the edge of the American University of Beirut. The word, which comes from the French corniche, meaning “ledge,” refers to a road on a ...

In less than a month since returning to office, Trump has overseen a rapid assault on the federal government—initiating mass firings of federal employees and handing over unprecedented powers to Elon ...