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What Sanctions Do (and Don’t Do)
In 2024, the Biden administration issued an executive order imposing sanctions on specific West Bank settlers and entities that profited from the settlements. Critics said the sanctions were ineffective. But the criticism rests on a misunderstanding of how they were supposed to work.
Tall Tales of the South Pacific
America’s wartime sailor turned Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener celebrated the South Pacific’s “infinite specks of coral.” But those precious coastlines and the Indigenous people who relied on them were left to suffer when the U.S. dumped tons of military equipment and food into the waters off Vanuatu.
We Can’t Agree on What Free Speech Means. Here’s Why
Historian and writer Fara Dabhoiwala joins New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai to discuss the complex history of free speech and his new book “What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea.”
Progressives Have No Business Celebrating MAGA’s Epstein Revolt
Not far beneath the right-wing critiques of Trump over Israel and Jeffrey Epstein lies a swamp of antisemitic conspiracy theorizing about sinister Jewish cabals preying on children — and progressives who applaud these developments are playing a dangerous game.
The ‘New Georgia’ Points to America’s Future
Georgia has become more politically and culturally diverse over the past decade. The new Peach State being built in Atlanta’s suburbs is one where white people and minorities, conservatives and liberals, retired suburbanites and young urbanists, transplants and natives are learning to build new types of communities together.
Republican Politics and Crypto Scams
A New Lines investigation sheds light on a cryptocurrency scam, with roots in a fringe conspiracy theory, that is now bolstered by some Republican lawmakers.
How Tijuana Went From Stopover to Destination
The Mexican border city of Tijuana was once considered a stopover for migrants attempting to reach the U.S. Yet it has increasingly become a destination in its own right, offering a different kind of American dream.