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The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?

By Kay Lawler SOUNDS and scents of summer: sizzling burgers and sausages on the barbecue, the happy laughter of children, the buzz of friendly conversations and…

Pain and hope fill hearts of Israeli coexistence activists Pain and hope fill hearts of Israeli coexistence activists Against the backdrop of conflict between Israel’s Jewish and Arab population, leaders of coexistence groups explain why they are not going to give up. May 16, 2021, 11:00 am Arabs and Jews protest the escalating violence and riots between the Arab and Jewish population, in Jaffa, on May 14, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Save this story for later. On January 31st, generals in Myanmar seized power, after their political allies lost an election in a landslide to the National League for Democracy, the party of Aung San Suu Kyi. She was detained, along with other party leaders, and remains under house arrest. Since then, Suu Kyi’s supporters have poured into the streets to demand the restoration of democracy, and civil servants and workers across the country have walked off their jobs. “If we stop going to work, the economic sector will stop working,” a bank employee named Daw Thandar Kyaw told the...

Peter Beinart: The United States doesn’t just bomb its enemies. It chokes them. Our ‘secondary sanctions’ look to starve other nations into submission (Chris Gash | The New York Times) America’s Other Forever War By Peter Beinart | For The New York Times   | Feb. 16, 2021, 3:00 p.m. “It is past time,” Joe Biden pledged last year, “to end the forever wars.” He’s right. But his definition of war is too narrow. For decades, the United States has supplemented its missile strikes and Special Operations raids with a less visible instrument of co...