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Dan PerryNY Daily News |
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...
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...
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...
Many who experience generative artificial intelligence reach the same two quick conclusions. First: It's amazing, since it writes and reasons better...
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...
All over Russia this past weekend, subjects of Forever-President Vladimir Putin travelled to places called polling stations where they went through...
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...
Successful people often struggle to appreciate that circumstances helped their elevation. Top skills and a strong work ethic are important to be sure,...
In Chicago in 1968, amid toxic national divisions, on a sweltering August day, Democratic party leaders chose someone other than the sitting U.S....
In theory, it's nothing new that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assassinated his peskiest opposition rival Alexey Navalny (on the opinion pages...
Arab leaders are well aware that regional peace will remain elusive until Hamas is sidelined.
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...
With the Gaza Strip in ruins and over a million displaced, should we be talking about defunding a United Nations organization catering to Palestinian...
Imagine two scenarios. In one, you bring together the most pleasant and brilliant people selected from the global population of 8 billion. In the...
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...
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...
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?...
Here's the tricky thing about the debate about diversity: achieving actual social justice, which I believe most people want, requires balance, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Oct. 7 invasion by several thousand Hamas terrorists will be a national trauma for the foreseeable future in Israel. It is simply unbelievable...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The progressives rallying for Hamas on U.S. campuses are missing something simple: Supporting the Palestinians, whose cause is noble enough, obligates...
There are moments in history when existing paradigms collapse, and great change becomes possible. Such moments gave us the end of colonialism,...
On Oct. 7, with Hamas terrorists still rampaging around southern Israel, I was interviewed on one of the American new channels that needed an...
The contours of idiocracy are coming into view as populist politicians all over the world are elevated by a fashion for disdaining experts, "elites,"...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
President Biden's long-delayed agreement to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly has sent many Israelis into...
Sometimes our assumptions are so ingrained that we hardly notice they're assumptions. They can seem obvious. So it is with the widespread conviction...