When American rapper Macklemore took the stage as Ed Sheeran’s opening act at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4 and 5, he used the platform to make a case for Palestinian liberation before audiences estimated at roughly 80,000. He performed “Hind’s Hall”—a protest song named for Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed...

Contrary to the celebratory myth that the Civil Rights movement ushered in an era of seamless egalitarian brotherhood, the actual implementation of its ideals exposed bitter, ethnic rivalries even among the very groups that worked to undermine White society. On May 9, 1968, 19 educators received letters from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board telling them...

In September 2026, Ansar Allah, derisively labeled as the Houthis in Western foreign policy circles, redrew the map of western Yemen in a matter of days. Its fighters swept down the Red Sea coast, seized Mocha on September 10, then pushed through Dhubab and took Mayyun Island at the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb strait...

Few Reconstruction figures have faded from public memory as completely as Franklin J. Moses Jr. Moses entered South Carolina history under a cloud of scandal and left it in disgrace. As governor, he accepted bribes, traded favors, and misused public funds. His obscurity, however, conceals a more consequential story. Moses ranked among the most outspoken...

Every Republican is an immigration hawk until the help stops showing up for work. Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement to change its enforcement tactics in rural America. The West Virginia Republican declared that this is “a very difficult balancing act from the standpoint of our ranchers” because enforcement had left some...

To remember Emanuel Celler only as the congressman behind landmark immigration reform is to miss the wider program he pursued for much of his career. The Jewish congressman was a forceful proponent of foreign intervention, international institutions, refugee admissions, and a more deeply entrenched American commitment to the State of Israel. Those commitments stood behind...

The news of Gloria Steinem’s death on September 2, 2026, at 92, invited the familiar ritual of American remembrance. Obituaries saluted the journalist who became the most recognizable public face of second-wave feminism. Yet a serious account of Steinem’s life must begin where tributes often hesitate. Before she confronted senators, presidents, and the editors who...

For many Americans, Spain in 1898 represented a fading colonial power struggling to hold Cuba. For some Jewish immigrants, it also recalled the empire that expelled Jews in 1492 and became synonymous with centuries of religious persecution. Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian-born Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1864 and built the New York World...