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An Ill Wind
Tehran residents who spoke to New Lines reported heavy pollution immediately following Israeli strikes on oil depots. An exclusive investigation and analysis show how the fires and smoke plumes spread across the Iranian capital.
Tehrangeles Syndrome
In Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian diaspora in the world, a community fractured by ideology is reckoning with what it means to cheer for a war on your homeland and a government that is rounding up your neighbors.
Iran Has Always Been More Than the Islamic Republic
An Iranian journalist reflects on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, considering decades of failed sanctions, diaspora authoritarianism and the civilizational story that nobody told.
Remembering ‘Never Again for Everyone’ at Bergen-Belsen
In April 2025, the author accompanied his mother, a child survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to a memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the camp’s liberation. At the time, famine was raging in Gaza. As a pro-Palestinian activist and Israeli citizen, the author was filled with complex emotions.
The Toll of Trump’s African Deportation Agreements
The U.S. has quietly deported a number of migrants to countries they have no ties to, where they face indefinite detention under secret agreements that may bypass local law. The transfers are part of a system that outsources tough immigration cases, trapping deportees in legal limbo far from home.
Anti-Americanism in Canada Is Nothing New — It’s a Tradition
Trump’s tariffs and threats to make Canada “the 51st state” have sparked boycotts of U.S. products, and may have even swung Canada’s April election. But anti-American fervor has a long, colorful history in Canada.
American Support for Israel Is a Political Religion
What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two states were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — functioning like an article of faith and producing its own heretics.