How the Guillotine Got Axed
Since France abolished capital punishment, in 1981, it has been nearly impossible to see a guillotine. In Paris, the Museum of the Prefecture of Police possesses just a guillotine blade, while the closest thing...
Israel Passes Widely Condemned Death Penalty Law For Palestinian Prisoners
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups...
Art Thieves Steal Paintings By Renoir, Matisse From Italian Museum
ROME (AP) — Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said Monday.The heist took...
Trump Blinks As Russia Defies U.S. Blockade, Delivers Oil To Cuba
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba prepared on Monday to receive a sanctioned Russian tanker carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of oil, the first such delivery this year to the island that has been brought to its...
The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest
October 7th, and the decimation of Gaza, brought unshakeable images to screens around the world—of hang gliders, brutalized women in the backs of trucks, mangled children, flattened city blocks. The spectacle produced by the...
At Beth El, a New Jersey Synagogue, a Deep Divide Over Israel
Early one morning last fall, Nathaniel Felder left his home, in Maplewood, New Jersey, dressed in a navy sweatshirt and a gray yarmulke. After putting on a backpack, he walked to Irvington Avenue, the...
Who Struck It Rich in the Markets When Trump Postponed Bombing Iran?
Since the war began, trading in the futures markets has been heavy and, sometimes, frenetic. In terms of their absolute size, the trades that took place immediately before Trump’s announcement last Monday weren’t off...
Lena Dunham on How She Became a Filmmaker
I made my first short film during a summer break from college at Oberlin, right after I turned twenty. I called it a satire, although I’m not sure I even knew what that meant....
Pakistan Says It Will Host U.S.-Iran Talks, While Iran Warns U.S. Ground Troops Would Be ‘Set On Fire’
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan announced Sunday that it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran, and it was unclear whether discussions on...
How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran
Since the United States and Israel began attacking Iran, in late February, Pakistan’s government has emerged as a surprising broker of ceasefire negotiations. In addition to helping communicate some of Donald Trump’s demands to...