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Comment: The rapid growth of the progressive vote in America over the past four years reveals how voting patterns will continue to change in 2020 and beyond, writes Yousef Munayyer.
US President Donald Trump plowed through $1 billion cash through his election campaign.
Dismantling the counterterror narrative is long overdue
Comment: The language and logic of counter-terrorism established by the US has been used to justify a devastating spectrum of Muslim persecution from France to China, writes Mobashra Tazamal.
Palestine: A history punctuated by the intifadas
Comment: To mark 20 years since the Second Intifada, Maher al-Charif takes a look back at the 1940 general strike and armed rebellion, and the ...
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg dies at 87
Justice Ginsburg was instrumental in championing women's rights issues in the United States.
Recycling Failure: Normalisation, annexation, and Oslo Accords at 27
Comment: Twenty seven years later, the true legacy of the Oslo Accords has been Palestinian division, entrenched occupation and annexation, and Arab betrayal of Palestinian self-determination, writes Dalal Yassine.
Recycling Failure: Normalisation, annexation, and Oslo Accords at 27
Comment: Twenty seven years later, the true legacy of the Oslo Accords has been Palestinian division, entrenched occupation and annexation, and ...
Economist Paul Krugman slammed over tweet denying post-9/11 Islamophobia
The response to the Nobel Prize winning economist's tweet that Americans took 9/11 "calmly" has been anything but calm.
US 'War on Terror' displaced 37 million people: report
The humanitarian cost of the US' War on Terror has been huge, a new report has claimed, although its figures have been disputed by some.
Sarsour is a steadfast ally, Biden shouldn't forget that
Comment: Biden's campaign must make space in the Democratic tent for anti-racist and progressive ally, Linda Sarsour, writes Mitchell Plitnick.
Needing election boost, Trump prepares to dominate party convention
President Donald Trump will seek to revive his re-election hopes this week at the Republican Party's largely online convention.
Snapback: The last gasp of Trump's failed Iran strategy
Comment: The Trump administration's effort to trigger the 'snapback' mechanism puts US isolation and the failure of its 'maximum pressure' ...
Palestine and the Democratic Party platform: A strategic regression
Despite growing support for a more progressive position on Palestine, the establishment wing has reverted to mainstream policies which ignore ...
What a Biden-Harris ticket means for the Middle East
America's strategy in the Middle East has failed. But can a Biden presidency repair it?
Pro-Palestine Democrat wins reveal weakening influence of Israel money
Comment: A string of defeats for pro-Israel candidates shows that Israeli support is not enough to overcome the progressive wave taking over the ...
Ilhan Omar wins Minnesota primary
Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar batted away a challenger and retained her title.
Pro-Palestine candidate Cori Bush wins US congress primary
Cori Bush earned a reputation as a fierce activist on the streets against police brutality in Missouri, and she made headlines for ...
Biden eyes major foreign policy shifts if he wins
Biden has pledged to demolish Trump policies on Day One, including reversing Trump’s ban on immigration from mainly Muslim countries and restore ...
US extends national emergency for Lebanon citing Hezbollah tensions
The growing power of Hezbollah constitutes an 'extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States', Trump ...
Review: Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Once Upon a Time in Iraq is a gripping but fragmented portrayal of a nation torn apart by war.
Mohammed bin Zayed's preferences regarding UAE foreign policy
Comment: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen takes a deep dive into what's driving bin Zayed's aggressive foreign policy agenda, the risks involved, and ...
Trump moves Bush, Clinton portraits to disused room
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said in his recently published book that Trump "despised" both Bush and Bush's ...
US will likely stay in Afghanistan, regardless of election
Comment: Though Biden talks about 'ending endless wars', he would likely prolong and even expand the drone programme and US presence in ...
Trump prepared to 'support Israeli attack on Iran': Bolton
Bolton was fired by Trump as National Security Adviser almost a year ago.
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