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Gaza, elections, and Land Day

Palestinians mark Land Day across Israel and the West Bank, politics take center stage in Israel, laid off workers take to the streets, a number of social and political struggles intensify, Gaza struggles to recover from last summer’s devastating war,…

What I Saw at Selma

Martin Luther King Jr. liked to joke that I was the one member of his legal team who would help him go to jail rather than using all the tricks of the trade to keep him out. I’d originally connected…

Means vs ends: Lincoln and Gandhi

  Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi were arguably the two giant personalities of the nineteenth and twentieth century respectively. Their lives are a study in differing, often contrasting styles of leadership, even though both sought similar goals. It is a…