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World
An Unexpected Player in Israel’s Defense: Jordan, Home to Many Palestinians
The response by Israel and other nations to Iran’s aerial attack kept the majority of its drones and missiles from landing in Israel, ensuring they caused only light damage and a handful of injuries, Israeli officials said. An unexpected — and for ...
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Security Forces Clash With Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Jordan, Video Shows
Security forces clashed with large crowds of pro-Palestinian protesters near Israel’s embassy in the Jordanian capital on Tuesday night, video recorded by The Associated Press and Reuters showed. It was the third consecutive day that demonstrations ...
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Airdrop by Jordan and France Underscores the Urgency of Gazans’ Need
Jordan and France airdropped food and other humanitarian aid into Gaza on Monday, bringing a modicum of desperately needed assistance to Palestinians facing looming famine as aid groups warned of growing restrictions on their ability to distribute ...
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Arts
She Helped the Lillys Blossom. Now She’ll Champion Her Own Work.
After years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now. There’s much more competition. In a good way.”
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Mike Johnson Is a Right-Wing Fever Dream Come to Life
Last week, on the eve of his first attempt to become speaker of the House, allies of Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio confidently predicted that his more mainstream and institutionalist opponents would cave rather than resist his ascent. Jordan’s ...
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‘Chaos Doesn’t Scare Me. American Decline Does.’
Jim Jordan’s bid last week to become speaker of the House — together with the withdrawal on Tuesday of Thomas Emmer from his campaign for the same job — revealed not only how far House Republicans have moved to the right, but also how weak the ...
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Fight for Speaker Reveals Four Types of House Republicans
Jim Jordan’s bid showed the power of the ultraconservative faction in Congress.
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Jim Jordan Doesn’t Know What Courage Is
It’s hard to overstate the extent to which our nation’s absurd Jim Jordan moment encapsulates the deep dysfunction of the political right in the United States. There’s of course all the chaos and incompetence of the Trumpist Republican Party, on ...
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The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold
No problem in the American system at this moment is as acute and disruptive as the one posed by the Republican Party. Yes, of course, there are any number of structural problems facing American politics. Our system of elections — first-past-the-post ...
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The New Republican Establishment
An alternative Trumpist governing elite gets closer to ruling the party.
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