Jenkins grew up in a cotton mill town in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, in a family where mill work begins young and college is more aspiration than inheritance. His parents insisted he ...

Writing for The New Republic, Edith Olmstead reports that a former CIA Director “didn’t mince words” when describing an innovative method of war employed by Israel in Lebanon. “Even Leon Panetta Says ...

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Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Over ten years, the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow shared thoughts, explored ideas and conducted research on an impressive scale to ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...