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Jul 5, 2026, 5:09 AM

American Men Need More Than Independence

As the United States marks 250 years since its founding, it is worth asking what kind of man this country has spent two and a half centuries trying to produce. The answer is not simple. American manhood has never been...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Jul 4, 2026, 1:42 PM

America, seen through Armenian and Jewish eyes

Fireworks explode above the White House during the UFC Freedom 250 fights on the South Lawn, in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

In the country where persecuted people found safety, Independence Day reminds me that we must speak out against hate before silence becomes complicity

Adriana Camisar

Jun 30, 2026, 8:21 PM

Why ILAN Is a Strategic Instrument for Turning the Isaac Accords into Reality

The relationship between Israel and Latin America did not begin with the Isaac Accords. Its roots run much deeper, dating back to the very creation of the State of Israel. In 1947, when the United Nations was a much smaller...

Leonel Caraciki

Jun 28, 2026, 12:56 AM

Should Brazil Turn Right, What’s In It for Israel?

With the election of Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia and Keiko Fujimori in Peru, Latin America is once again shifting from left to right. The pink tide of the early 2000s saw the rise of left and center-left...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:06 PM

Between the West Side and the West Bank

I was on the floor of my friend's Hollywood apartment with a microphone in my hand, singing my heart out to our makeshift karaoke. I was high and had made my way down a bottle of wine. Just a...

Jun 23, 2026, 5:11 AM

Populism Vs. Secure Attachment

Earlier this year I went on a few dates with a guy recently out of a relationship who was focused on handling his anxious attachment style. He was in therapy, had taken up making sourdough bread, and was viciously...

Jun 19, 2026, 7:12 PM

How Latin America’s Upheaval Is Shaping Israel’s Future

The Isaac Accords are opening new avenues for diplomatic engagement as a wave of Latin American leaders breaks from past alignments hostile to the West. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, was on brand when he recently posted “Heil Hitler” in...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 16, 2026, 11:41 AM

The Vance Deal’s Nuclear Trap for Israel

Vice President JD Vance appears on "Hannity" on Monday, June 15, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

The “Vance Deal”—underwritten by U.S. Vice President Vance’s preferred Middle East patrons in Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia—does not end a crisis. It monetizes American retreat, legitimizes and strengthens the Iranian regime, lifts America’s naval blockade of Iran...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Jun 11, 2026, 4:32 AM

Before We Understood What a Grenade Was

A childhood memory from San Jorge, El Salvador, during the Salvadoran Civil War.

There are memories that remain suspended between childhood and catastrophe. At the time they happen, they do not feel historical. They do not announce themselves as trauma. They arrive disguised as confusion, as heat, as adults behaving strangely while...

Jun 9, 2026, 6:16 AM

How to Vet Dates and Politicians

My friend was going through a break-up. We sat on the grass outside her home as I tried to convince her to hate her ex. I had been seeing New Guy. It’s hard to tell a friend to hate...

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