Late last year, Harper's Magazine sent me to the West Bank to report on the state of the nonviolent resistance movement. Nothing I had seen over more than a decade of reporting there prepared me for the levels of fear and devastation I encountered. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman on Eric Adams’s lessons from Trumpism go.nybooks.com/4ixSJ60

One of the best stock taking of the post-‘Liberation Day’ mess, by the always sharp Nic Johnson. nybooks.com/online/2025/04…

I spent two years writing this story. It is about the murder of my grandfather and the birth of Bangladesh and how those two things are inextricably linked, for The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/online/2025/05…

I just got a voice note from a first responder in Beit Lahia saying that the Israeli forces bombed the main roads that connect west Beit Lahia to east Beit Lahia. The ambulances have no access to a large area of the city that is being bombed now.

It’s hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Aid organization trucks are all lined up and ready to enter and Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for ~75 days. There is no way to describe this as anything other than the active, intentional, planned starvation of a people.

Finance Minister Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

➡️ NEW at Drop Site: “Nothing Left in Jabaliya”: Endless Catastrophes in a Besieged Refugee Camp After already destroying everything, the Israeli army has returned to invade Jabaliya for the fourth time since the war began By Hamza Salha in Gaza dropsitenews.com/p/jabaliya-gaz…

The New York Review of Books Guy and Osama from רופאים לזכויות אדם and I look beyond the role Israeli doctors have played in the #torture of Palestinian #prisoners to highlight the complicity of Israeli hospitals, doctors and medical associations in Gaza's destruction and deprivation of Pal right to health 1/4

I wrote about the gulag in El Salvador, for The New York Review of Books Some context on U.S.-Salvadoran history, Bukele, and forced disappearances nybooks.com/online/2025/06…

Mahmoud Khalil remains in detention. In new filings, his lawyers include a declaration from a former State Dep official that states Khalil's detention is "the kind of 'arbitrary detention' seen in autocratic regimes." I wrote about Khalil and other cases at length 👇

Somebody turned the camera off but Al Jazeera just broadcast images of people with their hands up on board the Madleen.

I'm writing the Miyazaki book 💫

Amir Ahmadi Arian on despair in Tehran go.nybooks.com/40g5zzd

Can he do it?? nybooks.com/online/2025/06…

Zohran Mamdani has remade the political map. UNBELIEVABLE

Amro Hamada on the crisis for Gazans with kidney disease go.nybooks.com/3FXITgv

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza. apnews.com/article/palest…

Our new piece in The New York Review of Books is now up. We examine the Trump Administration's three-front war on medical care access, biomedical research, and public health, arguing that we must fight back today, but also envision better systems for tomorrow. nybooks.com/online/2025/07…