A fascist commitment: How Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes a destructive and bloody shift of society
By Mark R. Reiff, Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press...
Why some traumatized Israeli journalists are taking sides over the narrative they communicate
When 85-year-old Israeli woman Yocheved Lifshitz was released from Hamas captivity in mid-October, she was warmly welcomed home. Then she began to speak. Addressing reporters from a wheelchair at a hospital, Lifshitz described a harrowing experience in Hamas captivity...
Israel’s identity: How intergenerational trauma shapes Jewish responses to Hamas war criticism
By Dov Waxman, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles In the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, and the Israeli military response, Jewish people in Israel and around the world...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Pentagon working to restore benefits to veterans targeted for being LGBTQ+
The Pentagon began a new effort to contact former service members who may have been forced out of the military and deprived of years of benefits due to policies targeting their sexual orientation, starting with those who served under “Don’t Ask,...
Pentagon’s prevention programs saw modest results in 2022 with a dip in the number of military suicides
The number of suicides among U.S. military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year, as the Defense Department tries to build prevention and treatment programs to address what has been a steadily growing problem over the past...
Our Culture War is actually a conflict between telling the truth or perpetuating the lies about who we are
“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled...
Rare copy of Spider-Man’s first illustrated appearance lands in Milwaukee comic shop with hefty price tag
A Milwaukee comic book shop is looking to sell a rare copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man. Collector’s Edge has acquired a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, according to a report by the Journal Sentinel. The comic book, written by Marvel Comics icon Stan...
Humanitarian dependence: An already weak health system in Gaza has been overwhelmed by a siege
By Yara M. Asi, Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida For the wounded, injured and sick in Gaza, there is seemingly no escape. On October 17, 2023, news broke that at least 500 patients, staff, and people...
Survivors share grief days after Russia wiped out residents of village with missile strike during funeral
U.N. and local investigators searched for answers on October 7 at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village that days earlier turned its sole cafe to rubble and killed nearly 52 people gathered for a dead soldier’s wake, according to...
The invasion of Ukraine is a war crime and calling it a “tragedy” shelters Russia from its responsibility
By Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to cause unspeakable, unimaginable suffering. By now, the word “tragedy” is firmly installed in the lexicon of the war and has become...
Russia admits it has no plans to rebuild Ukrainian cities it destroyed in order to illegally annex land
Ukrainians living in parts of Donbas illegally seized by the Russians in 2022 are facing another hellish winter with the aggressor state openly saying “there’s no point” in rebuilding many of the cities it destroyed. Russian minister of construction Irek...
Haruki Murakami: Celebrated author writes fiction to “see through lies” in a world divided by walls
For Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example of how our world is divided by walls, both physical and metaphorical. But while admitting he can only pray for peace now, he also feels confident that fiction, rather...
