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Israel Has Better Things to Do Than Just Strike Iran Back

In the wake of Iran's brazen and unprecedented drone and missile attacks, Israel finds itself at a critical juncture where its response could shape...

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Newsweek

Dan Perry

Is the Last 'Larry David Moment' the End of Humor?

My first "Larry David Moment" came in college. My roommate was holding court in the cafeteria with a group of young women listening rapt to his...

14.04.2024 6

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The News Media Has Helped Normalize Hamas

As a former foreign correspondent in the Middle East, I've frequently found myself defending the industry with Israelis who charge media bias. But as...

11.04.2024 2

Newsweek

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AI Is One Tweak Away From Ending Careers

Many who experience generative artificial intelligence reach the same two quick conclusions. First: It's amazing, since it writes and reasons better...

05.04.2024 20

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The Best Way to End Hamas Requires a Ceasefire First

In the days after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, I argued on these pages that Israel should not rush to invade Gaza, but instead deploy the moral high...

25.03.2024 4

Newsweek

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Potemkin Suffrage: The Media Should Call Out Fake Elections

All over Russia this past weekend, subjects of Forever-President Vladimir Putin travelled to places called polling stations where they went through...

18.03.2024 6

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Tyranny of the Early Riser

Let me tell you about my buddies Jules and Jim. Jules awakes with the roosters, concludes cross-fit by 6:30 a.m. and leaps to his eight-hour workday...

15.03.2024 10

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History Hands Alexei Navalny's Widow a Leading Role

Successful people often struggle to appreciate that circumstances helped their elevation. Top skills and a strong work ethic are important to be sure,...

06.03.2024 2

Newsweek

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Joe Biden Should Endorse Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Step Aside

In Chicago in 1968, amid toxic national divisions, on a sweltering August day, Democratic party leaders chose someone other than the sitting U.S....

28.02.2024 7

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Navalny's Murder Clarifies the Putin Problem

In theory, it's nothing new that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assassinated his peskiest opposition rival Alexey Navalny (on the opinion pages...

20.02.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Why aren’t Arab leaders calling on Hamas to end the war?

Arab leaders are well aware that regional peace will remain elusive until Hamas is sidelined.

17.02.2024 9

New York Post

Dan Perry

Peace in the Middle East Would Be Expensive—but Worth It

The latest Middle East crisis is the kind of catastrophe that can leave you in despair. But the shocks of Oct. 7 and the Gaza War are huge enough to...

06.02.2024 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

We Need to Talk About the UN in Gaza (and the Red Cross)

With the Gaza Strip in ruins and over a million displaced, should we be talking about defunding a United Nations organization catering to Palestinian...

31.01.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Return to the Office? No thank you!

Imagine two scenarios. In one, you bring together the most pleasant and brilliant people selected from the global population of 8 billion. In the...

28.01.2024 7

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Democrats Are Handing Trump a Gift on Immigration

President Joe Biden's political team is hard at work calculating what policy changes might halt the dangerous rise of former President Donald Trump in...

24.01.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Tolerating the Houthis' Red Sea Mischief Is Madness

It's rare for governments not to give a damn if their population gets crushed in stupid conflicts they start. Even the Nazis were unhappy with the...

16.01.2024 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Spurious but Serious: South Africa's Genocide Charge Against Israel

Could the country representing the survivors of the greatest genocide in modern history be guilty of the same crime just 80 years after the Holocaust?...

11.01.2024 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Our Story of Diversity, Inequity, and Exclusion

Here's the tricky thing about the debate about diversity: achieving actual social justice, which I believe most people want, requires balance, and...

05.01.2024 1

Newsweek

Dan Perry

2024 Is Another Year of Living Dangerously

Every new year brings with it opportunities and perils. We hope for the best, we should plan for the worst, and we focus on the knowledge that the...

30.12.2023 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Could 2024 Finally Be Puerto Rico's Year?

I'd like to herald the election year 2024 with the second-strangest story about the 2000 election. The top strangest, which happened in Florida, is...

29.12.2023 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

A Way Out of the Mideast Disaster

The Gaza disaster is a full-blown crisis for the Middle East and the world. But it is also a chance for an extraordinary restart. That will require...

20.12.2023 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Mediocrity of Donald Trump Is Part of the Danger

Donald Trump's election as president in 2016 was a shock to the world. The presence of a malicious narcissist at the helm in the United States was a...

15.12.2023 9

Newsweek

Dan Perry

'Decolonizing' the Holy Land? A Story of Peace, Power, and Privilege

The Oct. 7 invasion by several thousand Hamas terrorists will be a national trauma for the foreseeable future in Israel. It is simply unbelievable...

06.12.2023 9

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Netherlands' Lurch to the Right Has Lessons for Woke Democrats

The winner of last week's Dutch election was Geert Wilders, one of Europe's most notorious immigrant-bashers. That capped a good week for populists,...

27.11.2023 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

What Will It Take to Make Netanyahu Go Away?

David Cameron's return as foreign minister was treated by the British media as a shock, coming seven years after he resigned as prime minister because...

21.11.2023 6

Newsweek

Dan Perry

No News Would Not Be Better News From Gaza

Do we want media coverage of horrible police states, even though it will be messy and involve rounding some corners? That is the true question that...

13.11.2023 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Hezbollah's Dreams Deepen Lebanon's Nightmare

There once was a non-Muslim ethnic group in the Middle East that could have formed its own small country with a solid majority and a Western-leaning...

09.11.2023 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Are Progressives in Favor of an Islamist Theocracy, Or Just Ignorant?

The progressives rallying for Hamas on U.S. campuses are missing something simple: Supporting the Palestinians, whose cause is noble enough, obligates...

03.11.2023 9

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The steps needed to reshuffle the Middle East deck amid Israel-Hamas war

There are moments in history when existing paradigms collapse, and great change becomes possible. Such moments gave us the end of colonialism,...

28.10.2023 5

New York Post

Dan Perry

An Israeli Ground Assault Would Be a Gift to Hamas and Iran

On Oct. 7, with Hamas terrorists still rampaging around southern Israel, I was interviewed on one of the American new channels that needed an...

26.10.2023 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Terrorists' Secret Advantage Was Israel's 'Idiocracy'

The contours of idiocracy are coming into view as populist politicians all over the world are elevated by a fashion for disdaining experts, "elites,"...

24.10.2023 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Is It Too Late for Poland to Turn Back to Democracy? We'll Find Out Sunday

The new cold war is not between countries but within them—between two organizing principles that cannot possibly get along. On one side are liberal...

13.10.2023 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

New Gaza War on Israel Highlights a False 'Conception'

TEL AVIV, Israel _ Israelis marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur war in recent weeks with much agonizing over the collapse of the...

07.10.2023 6

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Western Inaction on Nagorno-Karabakh: Is It Impotence or Indifference?

It is a grand vexation of geopolitics: the failure of powers to act while action is possible. It can lead to tragedy, decimate power hard and soft,...

05.10.2023 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Ageism Is the Stupidest Prejudice of All

I am an optimist, so I expect that humans will one day attain a higher plane, at which prejudice is unknown. Until then we'll muddle through, scolding...

28.09.2023 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

A Few Words From Biden Could Mean Bye-Bye Bibi

President Biden's long-delayed agreement to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly has sent many Israelis into...

18.09.2023 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Freedom and Democracy Are Not the Same Thing. What if They Clash?

Sometimes our assumptions are so ingrained that we hardly notice they're assumptions. They can seem obvious. So it is with the widespread conviction...

08.09.2023 2

Newsweek

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