Year: 2026

By Walt Zlotow My response to the Chicago Tribune (my local paper) request for readers’ hopes for 2026. America should end senseless bombings in Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria and unidentified others that do […]

Before Palestine became a battlefield of competing nationalisms, it was something far less dramatic and far more instructive: a plural society. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived across the country under the governance of the Ottoman […]

Why How We Remember World War I Shapes How We Understand World War II The way societies remember war is never neutral. Memory shapes what is excused, what is repeated, and what is permitted to […]

“Nothing to see here.” Not in her own words, but it’s what AFP Commissioner, Krissy Barrett, signals as she blinks in late December sun, at a presser in which she claims that, The “Bondi Killers”, […]

There’s no point pretending 2025 was a good year. It wasn’t. It was loud, ugly, and exhausting. Truth bent more easily than it should have. Power felt less accountable. Too many leaders mistook cruelty for […]