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Arie Blitz

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Some anger should never die: Stop telling us to ‘move on’ from Oct. 7

Some anger should never die: Stop telling us to ‘move on’ from Oct. 7

This week marks three years since the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. An anniversary usually measures how much time has passed. For the families of those...

10.10.2026 4

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Arie Blitz

Trump regrets his Supreme Court picks. The Constitution doesn’t

President Donald Trump says he regrets nominating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Asked in a Time...

02.10.2026 10

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Before you applaud NAZA: A standing ovation is not proof of a war crime

At the Venice Film Festival, the Gaza documentary NAZA received a roughly 25-minute standing ovation and won the Special Jury Prize. Even its title...

01.10.2026 10

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Trump changed the drug-price game. Now everyone is gaming the system

President Donald Trump’s most-favored-nation drug policy was always going to do more than change prices. It was going to change behavior. Game...

28.09.2026 10

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‘Oct. 7 was horrific, but…’: Why the UN walked out before Netanyahu said a word

Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could make Israel’s case to the United Nations on Thursday, scores of diplomats got up and left....

25.09.2026 10

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Gaza’s ‘eyes and ears’ filmed hostages being beaten on Oct. 7. Then he hid the tape

Time once called Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza the world’s “eyes and ears” in Gaza. There is an uncomfortable irony in that...

24.09.2026 10

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Novo Nordisk sued over weight-loss drug spin. Now it’s doing the exact same thing

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are battling for dominance in one of medicine’s largest and fastest-growing markets: drugs for obesity and weight loss....

22.09.2026 10

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Israel had two duties after Oct. 7 — it failed one and lost the narrative

In April 1945, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower walked through the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in central Germany. He...

18.09.2026 10

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Macklemore has free speech. He doesn’t have a right to Robert Kraft’s stage

Until this controversy, I had no idea who Macklemore was. I do now — not because I went back and listened to his music, but because a fight over...

16.09.2026 10

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Iran isn’t irrational. Washington is

Before calling Iran irrational, we should be clear about what we mean. In strategy, rational does not mean moderate, humane, or wise. It means...

12.09.2026 20

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If foreign inspectors are wrong, Jews die. Israel holds the final say

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood near Gaza’s Yellow Line this week and said Israel is not withdrawing from the territory it now holds...

04.09.2026 10

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RFK Jr. wanted ‘gold standard’ science. mRNA just delivered it

In less than three weeks, American medicine produced two milestones worth noticing. On Aug. 5, the Food and Drug Administration approved MFLUSIVA,...

30.08.2026 30

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I would want revenge, too. That’s why Israel has to refuse

Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza. Held...

18.08.2026 20

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Iran cracked Trump’s tell — now the price just went up

In the 1998 poker movie Rounders, Matt Damon plays Mike McDermott, a gifted card player who turns a climactic rematch with Teddy KGB after recognizing...

10.08.2026 20

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JD Vance has Iran completely backward: Continuity is chaos

During a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Vice President JD Vance laid out a familiar fear about Iran: that a U.S. push for regime change...

03.08.2026 30

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