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¡Viva América!
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance was an ode to pan-Americanism.
Feb 11
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Matthew Petti
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Aircraft carrier or lobby: more thoughts on U.S.-Israeli relations
Path dependence and elite socialization have forced the U.S. to bear ever-increasing costs for a proxy of questionable value.
Sep 21, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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'Kidnapping Has Begun': Inside the Epstein Files I Obtained
The case of wealthy sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died in custody in 2019, has left a lot of unresolved mysteries that demand answers.
Aug 31, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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Blowback
Dec 9, 2024
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Matthew Petti
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Does Iran really 'care' about Palestine?
Dec 16, 2024
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Matthew Petti
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Yemen borrows the “humanitarian sanctions” playbook
Dec 22, 2023
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Matthew Petti
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“The Sopranos” is about the Arab-American experience
Jun 5, 2023
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Matthew Petti
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Muslim-American conservatives and the Palestinian question
Jun 15, 2023
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Matthew Petti
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International law is real
Nov 27, 2024
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Matthew Petti
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At the foothills of Mount Druze
Some notes and illustrations on the geography of a region suffering crisis.
Jul 23, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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‘A land so white and savage’
I went to the Canadian Arctic and found the world.
Jul 10, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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Friends of the Syrian revolution?
The debate over sanctions has revealed who was consistently concerned with Syrian well being — and who saw the revolution as a way to keep the country…
May 18, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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Can a military occupation be ‘liberal’?
A newly disclosed U.S. government study reveals the clash between martial law and rule of law in the West Bank.
May 13, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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Be careful what you wish for
Tablet Magazine claimed in July 2023 that it really just wanted the U.S. to leave Israel alone. Well, isn't that happening now?
May 11, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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You can just do things
I went to the Arctic. Here's some of what I saw.
May 2, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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What should I do if they ask to search my phone at border control?
A guide to dealing with the everyday civil liberties issue you're increasingly likely to encounter.
Apr 8, 2025
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Matthew Petti
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Does Iran really 'care' about Palestine?
Support for the Axis of Resistance was not about selfishness or selflessness, but about a convergence of interests around opposing the U.S.-led order.
Dec 16, 2024
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The Axis of Submission
For all the triumphalism about defeating its enemies in the Middle East, the United States doesn't have a positive order to replace them with.
Dec 9, 2024
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Matthew Petti
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