Israel’s judicial proposal reverberates in the U.S. An Israeli government effort to weaken the country’s judiciary, a move that critics call a threat to the nation’s democratic foundations, is drawing protest from American Jewish leaders and organizations, including ones that generally avoid commenting on internal Israeli politics. Democrats and progressives have so far been more […]
Month: March 2023
U.S. and Europe Angle for New Deal to Resolve Climate Spat
WASHINGTON — American and European officials meeting in Washington this week are trying to agree on the outlines of a limited trade deal that would allow European companies to qualify for some of the benefits of the Biden administration’s new climate legislation, in a bid to assuage a major source of tension between the allies. […]
The Patriarchy Trap – The New York Times
Swap spying for marriage and you have, more or less, the argument of Deniz Kandiyoti’s famous 1988 article Bargaining With Patriarchy. She analyzed the ways that women in India and the United States are first pressured into accepting the “bargain” of becoming reliant on a man in exchange for the promise of his support and […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — It was Christmas Day, and four fighters from a volunteer Ukrainian special forces team had slipped over the border into Russian territory. They were on a mission to scout enemy positions, place mines to blow up Russian military equipment and engage in sabotage operations to undermine Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The four […]
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
WASHINGTON — New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, a step toward determining responsibility for an act of sabotage that has confounded investigators on both sides of the Atlantic for months. U.S. officials said that they had no evidence President […]
2 Americans Found Dead, 2 Found Alive in Mexico Kidnapping
MEXICO CITY — Zalayna Grant last spoke to her brother on Thursday, when he told her he was driving to Mexico with a group of friends — one of them was planning to get a tummy tuck there. Her brother, 28-year-old Zindell Brown, was laughing, Ms. Grant said, and she could hear his three friends […]
6 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank Clashes
The Israeli military carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that it said was aimed at arresting a suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli brothers recently. In the spiraling violence, six Palestinians were killed, according to Palestinian health officials, and Israel said one of them was […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian officials said they have begun a war crimes investigation into a video that emerged of what they said was the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russian soldiers. Slightly hunched and with a cigarette dangling from his lip, the Ukrainian soldier in the video looks tired and dirty. He is not holding […]
Dalit Journalist Takes On India’s Caste Injustices
The injustices were all too common. In one part of India, a vendor’s stall was broken up, depriving him of his livelihood. In another, members of a poor family were denied government benefits, forcing them to beg for survival. They were all Dalits, once deemed untouchable by India’s hierarchical caste system. Such episodes have gone […]
Ukraine Generals Say They Want to Keep Fighting for Bakhmut: Live Updates
Sergei K. Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, made a rare visit to occupied Ukrainian territory amid the lackluster performance of Russia’s renewed military offensive and growing tensions with the Wagner mercenary group, a prominent paramilitary ally. Mr. Shoigu toured the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to videos and statements released by the Russian […]