Dozens of Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip over the weekend as Israeli and Hamas officials resumed indirect cease-fire talks through mediators in Qatar. Israel’s military said on Sunday that…
The shop used to sell flowers and gardening gear to visitors from just down the road, where a tiny breakaway region of Moldova has for more than 30 years stood…
Days before Republicans take full control of Washington, the Democratic National Committee is mired in an intramural fight that is less about how the party found itself locked out of…
For much of her life, Sumaya Ainaya spent weekend and summer nights on Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the city of Damascus, joined by other Syrians drinking coffee, smoking hookah and…
To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship. “Our Country…
Since his cancer diagnosis last year, Kent Manuel has regularly seen an oncologist near his home in Indianapolis. It’s been a tough time: After spinal surgery for paralysis caused by…
There are, the hit man said, many ways to kill. A string tied between two sticks strangles with a tug of the wrists. A butcher’s blade, long and thin, slices…
Conor here: Maybe the NGOs aren’t going to save us. By Aaron Kirshenbaum, CODEPINK’s War is Not Green campaigner and East Coast regional organizer. Cross posted from Common Dreams. On…
In two weeks, Donald J. Trump is to emerge from an arched portal of the United States Capitol to once again take the presidential oath of office. As the Inauguration…
A fierce storm barreling across the country toward the Mid-Atlantic pounded a vast area with a wintry mix of sleet, snow and freezing rain that the Weather Prediction Center warned…