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How Ireland won independence, and what the IRA ...

Ireland is the one place on this site that came out the other side. How it got there involved a guerrilla army, and the honest version of that story is...

How Ireland won independence, and what the IRA ...

Ireland is the one place on this site that came out the other side. How it got there involved a guerrilla army, and the honest version of that story is...

The house Jared Kushner grew up in

The man who negotiated the Abraham Accords was presented as a neutral dealmaker. His formation was not neutral, and the record of it is public.

The house Jared Kushner grew up in

The man who negotiated the Abraham Accords was presented as a neutral dealmaker. His formation was not neutral, and the record of it is public.

The accounting behind the Abraham Accords

Normalisation agreements are usually described as peace deals. Read as transactions, they explain a set of events that otherwise look unrelated — a real-estate remark about Gaza, a drone war...

The accounting behind the Abraham Accords

Normalisation agreements are usually described as peace deals. Read as transactions, they explain a set of events that otherwise look unrelated — a real-estate remark about Gaza, a drone war...

Why coverage is not distributed by need

The gap between how much suffering a conflict produces and how much attention it receives is not random. It has fairly well understood causes.

Why coverage is not distributed by need

The gap between how much suffering a conflict produces and how much attention it receives is not random. It has fairly well understood causes.

Ireland: why it is on this list at all

Nobody in Ireland today is under bombardment. Putting it in a straight line with Sudan or Gaza would be dishonest. Here is the actual argument for including it.

Ireland: why it is on this list at all

Nobody in Ireland today is under bombardment. Putting it in a straight line with Sudan or Gaza would be dishonest. Here is the actual argument for including it.

Palestine: the long tradition of unarmed resist...

The Palestinian record of general strikes, boycotts and mass civil disobedience is nearly a century long. It is also the part that gets covered least.

Palestine: the long tradition of unarmed resist...

The Palestinian record of general strikes, boycotts and mass civil disobedience is nearly a century long. It is also the part that gets covered least.