In ruins

As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Terrorism’s record of failure

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DARFUR HAS ONCE MORE become the center of a wave of violence in Sudan’s brutal civil war, sparking warnings of a repeat of the genocide that blighted the region two decades ago. After a suffocating 18