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In an excerpt from her new book “Justice For Some: Law and the Question of Palestine,” Noura Erakat tackles the Palestinian Authority and its “illusory quest” for statehood where economic perks under the promise of self-autonomy “has shaped the Palestinian leadership’s commitment to U.S. tutelage and its reticence to embark on a bolder course based on a politics of resistance.”

By Stefan Gleason web posted April 19, 2021 Anyone who says inflation isn’t a problem hasn’t tried shopping for a new home recently. Housing costs are skyrocketing. The median sales price of existing homes has spiked 16% over the past 12 months (from $270,400 to $313,000) – the fastest pace in 15 years. The real estate market is being pressured not only by a low inventories of houses listed for sale, but also by rising prices for construction materials. Home builders must deal with ...

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From left, Lindsey, Addie, Charles, Noah, and Matthew Wamsley. Lindsey Wamsley spends two hours a day prepping medications for her 5-year-old daughter, Addie. There are nine different drugs, and some she takes more than once a day. Coaxing a young child to take this much medicine definitely requires creativity. The Wamsleys give each vial a playful name, like “orange drop,” “yummy reindeer,” and the less-tasty “yucky reindeer.” “She helps us name every single one of them,” Lind...

Random notes for the first week of March … All of the local meteorologists keep talking about how March 1 is the start of “meteorological spring.” Okay, fine, but the rest of us won’t be putting our snow shovels away for a few weeks. And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, The Cat’s Quizzer, and If I Ran the Zoo. I have nothing to add to this story, but it gives me the chance to link to the interview the Post did with Theodor Geisel in 1957. Subscribe and get unlimited access to o...

The crises of 2020, particularly the pandemic and violence against Black Americans, have caused many travelers to rethink how and where to travel.

December 20, 2020 Rebecca GORDON It was the end of October 2001. Two friends, Max Elbaum and Bob Wing, had just dropped by. (Yes, children, believe it or not, people used to drop in on each other, maskless, once upon a time.) They had come to hang out with my partner Jan Adams and me. Among other things, Max wanted to get some instructions from fellow-runner Jan about taping his foot to ease the pain of plantar fasciitis. But it soon became clear that he and Bob had a bigger agenda for the...

All-War-All-the-Time? Originally posted at TomDispatch. Hmmm… let me see if I’ve gotten this straight. In his last days in office, Donald Trump is “ending” America’s forever wars (as he long promised he would do) by leaving 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan, a similar number in Iraq, and continuing the air war across parts of the Greater Middle East and Africa. Take Somalia, where American troops have periodically been stationed since 1993. The latest secretary of...