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Jan 16, 2025 | foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |David Rosenberg |Howard French

How will the world look back at Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack? What does the global polarization over the war and its causes say about our political discourse? Indian public intellectual Pankaj Mishra takes on these questions in a new book, The World After Gaza. In it, he argues that the cleavage in public opinion reflects the competing narratives that shaped our modern world: decolonization in the global south and the post-Holocaust liberal order in the global north.

Jan 14, 2025 | flipboard.com | Howard French

9 hours agoWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses, but former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton …

Jan 14, 2025 | foreignpolicy.com | Howard French

United States North America Howard W. French In the recent frenzy of commentary seeking to interpret U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s increasingly adamant comments about territorial expansion to Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, too much of the discussion has focused on matters of secondary importance.