The Taliban urging Iran and Israel to de-escalate and exercise restraint is like when Kanye urged Elon Musk and Donald Trump to make up and get over their feud

A Palestinian dissident who survived Hamas torture and attacks in exile now faces deportation from Germany—the very country he believed would offer safety. After risking his life to oppose extremism, Hamza's future hangs in the balance: themiddleeastuncovered.com/p/i-risked-my-…

The reaction of many in the Arab world to the escalating Israel-Iran conflict is that of quiet, tacit support. Iranian-backed militias and political networks have undermined sovereignty and eroded national institutions of Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Iran’s regional

Where is Iran headed? From strategic retreat to regime collapse, the Islamic Republic's volatile trajectory could reshape U.S. policy, Israeli defense strategy, and regional power dynamics. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar breaks down the five potential outcomes: middleeastuncovered.substack.com/p/irans-future…

This may quite literally be the most delusional claim I have ever heard.

Might f around and buy a Sophie Cunningham jersey.

Iran’s empire of proxies is crumbling—from Beirut to Baghdad. The regime’s decades-long “resistance” narrative is collapsing under the weight of war, repression, and strategic failure. Now, the blowback has reached Tehran. Ahmet Alrayyis reports: themiddleeastuncovered.com/p/the-collapse…

The funny thing is that the white women chanting “hands off Iran” in London and New York are the same ones who wore the Handmaid’s Tale costume to protest the Trump administration

One of the hardest things to empathize with: genuinely ignorant westerners enjoying a quality of life the overwhelming majority of human beings of any place or time would give anything to experience glamorizing backwards politics and ideologies that would devour them if given

AI cannot make me break up with the em dash. Our love is just too strong.

Show this video to Zohran. A Cuban seeing Costco for the first time gets emotional witnessing the sheer abundance. People who’ve actually lived under socialism are often the most moved by what markets can create. Capitalism is a miracle, actually.

Thank you, Andrew Sullivan, and thank you, The New York Times, for slowly letting the adults back into the room. nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opi…

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

"We don't hate trans people. Adults who transition are fine. We just have a problem with trans-ing kids." - Republicans for the past decade (Proceed to bully, doxx, and harass a fully grown trans woman for *existing* and writing about econ in a way that even favors their

I'm not sure what the countries still hosting Hamas's leadership are waiting for. Every state that continues to give them shelter is complicit in my people’s suffering.

“When our outrage is selective, our conscience becomes a performance.” Iran’s proxy wars don’t liberate Palestinians—they sacrifice them. In Middle East Uncovered, Hamza exposes the cost of resistance politics: ow.ly/zewU50WjPhl (Powered by Ideas Beyond Borders)

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1385 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 925 days since they barred women from university. This will go down as one of the great betrayals of the 21st century. A generation of girls, locked out, while the world looked away.

A Shabbat in Bahrain. Yes, you read that right. From the invaluable Middle East Uncovered Middle East Uncovered , a feature of Ideas Beyond Borders Ideas Beyond Borders open.substack.com/pub/middleeast…

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