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“The American political scene,” wrote Perry Anderson in 2013, “is conventionally depicted in high colour.” According to conventional—that is, liberal—observers in the Bush and Obama years, America ...

I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees. I once ...

In the West Bank, where foreign media can still operate, daily horrors are both more commonplace and less frequent than in Gaza. A new Israeli-Palestinian documentary, No Other Land, is illustrative ...

How the press combats rumor, the market rigger, and the propagandist ...