
Observations on history, society, and the media from an American journalist who lived in the Middle East.
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I haven’t really posted on the Substack in awhile. Many of the topics I usually write about here — from the Middle East to the Arctic to the Freedom of Information Act — I’ve been busy covering at Reason. Do read my coverage there. But I wa...
A police drone hovers over protesters outside the Israeli consulate in New York on October 8, 2023.
I think, research, and write a lot about the U.S.-Israeli relationship. It is safe to say now that this relationship is driving the entire...
The case of wealthy sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died in custody in 2019, has left a lot of unresolved mysteries that demand answers. As I’ve argued, contrary to popular expectations, there probably is no “Epstein List” waiting to be...
Last week, terrible violence broke out in Sweida Province, Syria. A conflict between local Bedouin and Druze communities drew in the Syrian government and the Israeli army. While there were war crimes on all sides, Bedouin and other pro-gov...
The view from Masjid Iqaluit.
“Oh for just one time, I would take the Northwest Passage,
To find the hand of Franklin1 reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one warm line through a land so white and savage,
And make a Northwest Pass...
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