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Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT I'm on a low-budget book tour, sleeping in spare bedrooms and munching granola in the kitchens of progressives all along the East Coast....

Israel loses politically in Gaza battle

Earlier this week the Israeli military and armed groups in Gaza clashed in the worst fighting since their 2014 war. Israeli planes bombed Palestinians,...

Murder of Saudi journalist builds opposition to Yemen war

The murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has backfired on the Saudi royal family by focusing new attention on its vicious war on...

Reconstituting Orson Welles, in ‘Wind’ and in ‘Love’

When Orson Welles died in 1985 at age 70—hardly “prematurely,” since given his prodigious appetites (esp. culinary) it was already a miracle he’d survived...

What the Khashoggi case tells us about terrorism

ISTANBUL -- In 2013, an Iranian national living in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison for planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador...

Assassination of Philippine leader 35 years ago holds lessons for today

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Filipinos remember a disaster that hit their country 35 years ago. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Philippine leader...

Chairman John Bolton takes over North Korea

PYONGYANG --North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced today that he was resigning and appointing John Bolton as the country's new supreme leader. Kim, apparently acting...

Ficks’ Picks at TIFF: The grand masters return

48 Hills critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more of his on-the-ground reviews and impressions here.  TIFF Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters which...

The complex politics of Myanmar …

I sneaked into Myanmar on a tourist visa because the military junta running the country made it almost impossible to travel as a journalist....

Screen Grabs: Soviet Hippies, Green Film Fest, John McEnroe

SCREEN GRABS It’s a week unusually full of documentaries, including the Roxie’s single showing next Wed/5 of Soviet Hippies—a look at countercultural resistance behind...