Ratner Middle East Fellowship

Saudi Arabia — in the news for cutting oil production and pushing up the price of gas — is also making headlines for perhaps a more unusual reason: golf.

The US president’s promise to put human rights first doesn’t seem to apply to Israel.

Racism lowers the floor for how all people are treated. But it’s not too late to change.

Ending police exchanges will help build a world where our ties are of solidarity and common pursuits for justice.

The idea that we have to either support military action and sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, or “do nothing,” is a false binary.

Economic sanctions are a weapon of war, not an alternative to war.

King looked beyond our borders — not only at injustice, but how people worked together to end it. It’s an example we need today.

The Pentagon now claims no wrongdoing in a parting drone attack that killed seven children. International law and basic morality demands real accountability.

There are obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality. Is time for activists to join forces?

Instead of resetting U.S. relations with Iran, Biden has mostly continued the course of aggression set by the Trump Administration.

Discussing the border in nativist terms obscures the real crises that propel migrants to seek asylum in the United States.

When the world needed collaboration across borders to control the pandemic, U.S. militarism led to the opposite. We must change course.

Regardless of who is giving orders to U.S. bombers, we know that deploying U.S. troops, drones, and warplanes across the region does not provide safety or security for anyone.

We need a decisive break from the previous century of US policy toward Iran, which has been based on domination.

Black Lives Matter protests have jumped U.S. borders and reached across the world, including Palestine, where Floyd’s murder has struck a chord.

War hasn’t taken a break during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Don’t ban the immigrants we need for essential jobs — welcome them with open arms and full rights.

Despite millions of coronavirus cases around the globe, war continues to be waged — many of them on behalf of the united states. That must end immediately.

As we take steps to control the virus, these devastating U.S. foreign policies need to be immediately reversed.

Khury Petersen-Smith and Rebecca Vilkomerson discuss racism and security, and how the coronavirus pandemic gives us an opportunity to redefine security.