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2 weeks ago | 
thenation.com | D.D. Guttenplan |Jodi Dean |Charles Glass |Chris Lehmann
Books & the Arts Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
orbooks.com | Charles Glass
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Civil War to Holy War?
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Charles Glass
Comment / If history is any guide, the latest Lebanese ceasefire may well have broken down by the time you read this. Ad Policy This article appears in the January 2025 issue, with the headline “Beirut Ceasefire.”Whenever I hear the word “ceasefire” about Lebanon, I reach for my stopwatch. During the first phase of the civil war there, in 1975–76, we would give numbers to each successive ceasefire. Our tally ran out of steam after 100.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Charles Glass
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities describes the imaginary Maurilia, whose inhabitants invite visitors “to examine some old postcards that show it as it used to be.” In return the visitors “must praise the postcard city and prefer it to the present one.” The “lost grace” of Maurilia approximates Beirut’s, which likewise “can be appreciated only…in the old postcards.” It is with nostalgic regret that from time to time I examine postcards in the decaying souvenir shops of Beirut’s...
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Charles Glass
Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Welcome to the TLSThe terrorist operation to seize the Iranian embassy in 1980 was never meant to succeed
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
progressivehub.net | Charles Glass
The history of Israel’s incursions into Lebanon are a series of lessons in futility and the arrogance of power. If only anyone were paying attention. By Charles Glass, The Nation“It was one of the biggest targeted killing operations of the twentieth century, if not the biggest,” wrote Ronen Bergman in his definitive account of Zionist assassinations from 1907 to 2018, Rise and Kill First.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Charles Glass
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Charles Glass
Thank you for reading The Nation!We hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Charles Glass
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Charles Glass
March 21, 2024 The US Government’s Plot to Murder Julian AssangeWhile dictators kill troublesome journalists with guns and missiles, democracies can afford to be more patient. But the end result is the same. Ad Policy A banner against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States is displayed in Milan, Italy, on March 11, 2024.(Pier Marco Tacca / Getty Images)In most of the countries whose wars I’ve covered over the past 50 years, journalists were fair game.
