Discomfort zone

Writings from Barnett Rubin on Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, and more. The stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

My personal Substack

The Burning Questions of U.S. Foreign Policy

Observations on history, society, and the media from an American journalist who lived in the Middle East.

Notes from this moment in the struggle for gender equality.

Dr Charlotte Proudman - The Feminist Revolution

Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?

In-depth about the Kremlin

Economic and political processes and major events in Ukraine and the region

Writing by Lily Lynch.

Global inequality and other economics

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

Politics, psychology, and tips on averting the apocalypse.

Global power politics, for the people. Thinking through a foreign policy opposed to oligarchs, militarists, and other scumbags who have undue influence over our dystopian world politics.

A newsletter and a bedtime podcast.