Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore?

Violent unrest after a stabbing in Northern Ireland showed the extent to which the far right has taken hold in the U.K., as well as in Europe and the U.S.

Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.

“The balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right.” The New York Times’ chief political analyst on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.

How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.

Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.

The Pakistani military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as it looks to wield more influence in the region.

Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict. An expert discusses what Israel really hopes to...

Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Bill Bishop, the author of “Sinocism,” about how China views the Trump Administration’s alienation of NATO allies, and what is happening in Xi’s “anti-corruption campaign.”

After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities.

An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.

A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.”

A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And how the fantasies and delusions of the major players could torpedo the deal.