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How Saudi Arabia Captured the U.S. Economy Through American Oligarchs
Infatuation with Saudi money—and tyranny—reveals what many oligarchs envision for America’s future.
Aug 26
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Casey Michel
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Samar Yazbek: Giving Voice to Gaza's Survivors
What happened to the people of Gaza who survived the genocide? Is it even right that we consider them survivors?
Aug 17
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King Abdullah’s False Promises of Reform in Jordan
The Western-backed monarch’s purported commitment to political liberalization doesn't match reality for Jordanians under his long rule.
Aug 14
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Robin Yassin-Kassab: Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble
The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.
Jul 3
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How Sisi's Militarized Urbanism Is Remaking Egypt
Sisi's regime has securitized public spaces and built mass surveillance into urban planning in a quest to turn Egypt into the “perfect military camp.”
May 20
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Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine
How state violence and market coercion have devastated the social, ecological, and economic fabric of rural life in the West Bank.
Feb 26
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Why the Struggle for Palestine Is a Struggle Against ‘Fossil Capitalism’
Palestinian survival in Gaza is inseparable from the fight for the future of the planet.
Feb 9
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Why Tiny Jordan Is a Microcosm for Understanding the Entire Middle East
However accidental its historical genesis, Jordan has become a crucible of knowledge about how power and geopolitics operate in the region.
Dec 17, 2025
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Omar El Akkad: 'One Day There Will Be No More Looking Away.'
It is a disorienting thing, to keep a ledger of atrocity, to write the ugliness of each day as it happens.
Oct 10, 2025
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