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 ...

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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 ...

This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The sheer scale of money in politics is now hard to imagine. Over the last fifteen ...

Donald Trump spent his first days back in the White House rolling out plans for mass deportations, an unbridled assault on civil rights, and the defunding of vital social programs. Meanwhile, the tech ...

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 ...

This note introduces our Winter 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Donald Trump is back in the White House. His campaign claims—immigrants are stealing, murdering, and collecting public benefits; ...

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