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Biden’s CIA Director Doesn’t Believe Biden’s Story about Ukraine
If you’ve followed the diplomacy over Ukraine closely, you may have noticed that the Biden administration has relied heavily on CIA Director William J…
Peter Beinart
Feb 7
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If Israel Eliminated Hamas, Nothing Fundamental Would Change
I apologize for not sending out a newsletter again this Monday. I’ll be back on schedule from now on. I was off for Shavuot, the holiday on which Jews…
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May 20, 2021
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America’s Generation Gap on Ukraine
In Washington today, if you oppose keeping NATO’s doors open to Ukraine you’re a bit of a freak. I’m aware of barely any members of Congress, in either…
Peter Beinart
Jan 24
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The Wars Will End When Palestinians Can Return
I’m sorry that this newsletter is late. I’ve spent the last few days frantically working—with the help of my extraordinary Jewish Currents colleagues—on…
Peter Beinart
May 12, 2021
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Progressives are Comparing Palestinians to Black Americans. That’s good
Almost everyone seems to agree that the changing American conversation about race is changing the American conversation about Israel-Palestine. The rise…
Peter Beinart
May 24, 2021
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How I Changed My Mind
I’ve published a new New York Times column. My excellent editor gave it the headline, “Biden Wants America to Lead the World. It Shouldn’t.” The…
Peter Beinart
Dec 7, 2020
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Between Iraq and Ukraine: Progressive Foreign Policy in a Multipolar Age
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine constitutes the most graphic evidence yet that the unipolar American era—the era in which Washington was the only great…
Peter Beinart
Mar 1
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Lock Them Up
If America were a healthy democracy, abortion would still be a constitutional right. It’s not just that all but one of the justices who voted to…
Peter Beinart
Jun 27
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Why Matt Duss Matters
Christian hostility to Jews draws more attention than Jewish hostility to Christians. And for good reason. Christian hostility has produced millennia of…
Peter Beinart
Feb 8, 2021
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Why White Nationalism Requires Antisemitism
The man who killed ten people in Buffalo on Saturday published a manifesto. I’m in it. My photo appears in a typology of Jewish faces, each of which has…
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May 15
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We Can Support Ukraine and Admit the Racism in US Foreign Policy At the Same Time
In a 2016 essay, the journalist Howard French wrote about the moment he convinced his bosses at the New York Times to make him the newspaper’s…
Peter Beinart
Mar 7
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Making the Middle East Safe for Tyranny
We’ve learned some hard truths recently. One of them is about Joe Biden: He’s not up to this moment. It’s now painfully clear that defending voting…
Peter Beinart
Jul 11
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