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Common Ground

By Rachel Poser

Thirty miles from the coast, on a desert plateau in the Judaean Mountains without natural resources or protection, Jerusalem is not a promising site for one of the world’s great…

The Presidential Inaugural Committee advertised two tickets to an “intimate policy discussion” with Cabinet members for between $100,000 and $249,000, and, for more than a million dollars, eight tickets to…

The Transhistorical Moment

By Rachel Poser on September 23, 2016

A museum's misguided attempt to rescue the past Read More

Weekly Review

By Rachel Poser on August 30, 2016

In New Jersey, a newspaper published two obituaries of the same man, one by his wife and one by a woman claiming to be his girlfriend. A minor-league baseball player…

Weekly Review

By Rachel Poser on February 9, 2016

Egypt banned a German tourist from the country for climbing the Giza pyramid, and the body of an Italian student was discovered with signs of torture in a Cairo suburb. A…

Weekly Review

By Rachel Poser on December 22, 2015

France’s National Front party, whose president, Marine Le Pen, recently compared Muslims praying in public to Nazi occupiers and was acquitted of hate-speech charges, won a record 6.8 million votes…

Weekly Review

By Rachel Poser on November 24, 2015

The Food and Drug Administration approved genetically engineered salmon for human consumption. Ethiopian Airlines operated its first flight staffed entirely by women, Salt Lake City elected its first openly gay mayor,…