This article appears in the April 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. I begin with full-throated praise: Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker is the greatest interviewer alive.

Thousands of years of history are hard to sum up in one article on the internet, but here, the KSAT Explains team is breaking down some of the key conflicts that have transpired involving Israel, Gaza ...

Jerusalem is arguably the most contentious city in the world, so any work discussing it, let alone one that explores its four millennia of history, is bound to be controversial. But the 256-page ...

This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and ...

In 1941 the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, a supporter of Hitler, invited him to come to Palestine and “eliminate all the Jews.” In a letter he wrote in 1921 to Winston Churchill, who ...

For weeks now, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed on a daily basis in and around Jerusalem's Old City, home to major religious sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a centuries-old ceremony known as the Holy Fire. Holding unlit candles, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Elaine Kahaner’s June 15 letter, “Remember who the real enemy in Gaza is,” ...