Excerpts from the diary of Atef Abu Saif, who has been in Gaza since October 7.

An infuriating, thuddingly predictable genre of article has emerged: the “Biden is really upset with Israel behind the scenes” story.

The hospital system is barely functional. Disease is running rampant. Medical workers are being kidnapped, tortured, and killed. And the world is letting it happen.

Israel is trying to snuff out journalism in Gaza. This should be a sound-the-alarm, all-hands-on-deck moment for anyone who professes to support reporters and the work that they do.

The US government is making elaborate plans to ameliorate a humanitarian catastrophe that would not exist without its own bombs.

This city is welcoming to just about everyone—except hateful fascist bigots, as the Moms for Liberty found out.

If the president is the man in charge, these press secretaries are his robotic enforcers, playing the same hollow tunes every day.

Why are Americans being encouraged to celebrate another country’s coronation? Don’t we have enough problems with our own oligarchs?

The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.

More excerpts from the diaries of writer Atef Abu Saif.

The judiciary that protesters say protects their freedom is a key architect of the apartheid regime that has stolen so much freedom from Palestinians.

An interview with Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, about the historic genocide ruling from the UN’s top court.

They are reporting under unimaginable difficulties and being killed in record numbers. The journalistic community should be honoring them every day.

If you're sending Israel the weapons it's using to massacre people, you're not really trying to stop the massacres. Obviously.

He's finally gone to hell 🙂

Bari Weiss' blog is back with more lies, hatred, and the weaponization of a few choice adults in service of harming trans youth.

The paper's response to a letter decrying its anti-trans coverage was disgraceful.

This war is happening for one reason: the prolonged suffering and occupation that Palestinians have endured for seven decades.

Atef Abu Saif’s dispatches from the heart of the Israeli assault continue.

Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm.

Pro-IDF revelers were getting drunk, dancing, and bidding on VIP passes to Shaq’s Fun House. (Really.) But anti-Zionist Israeli activists had other plans.

The BuzzFeed CEO is the worst sort of boss, and if we want a better media world, we have to destroy the one he helped create.

Throughout the past week of horrors in Gaza and Israel, mainstream US news programs have made it painfully clear that, for them, Palestinians are expendable.

Unless Israel ends the occupation and the apartheid state, this will never be over.

The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.

There was beauty and comradeship everywhere. And there were thousands and thousands of cops.

Palestinian writers George Abraham and Sarah Aziza were in the middle of an ongoing correspondence. Then came October 7.

The world's most useless weirdos lost their minds because people had the nerve to invoke Gaza at the show.

And, if too many Palestinians are dying, why don't we stop giving Israel the bombs it is using to kill them?

A martyr for Palestine.

The party is embracing the idea of the border as a bulwark against a savage horde. As it happens, that’s exactly how Israel talks about Gaza.

After October 7, this question has become a matter of grave importance, amid crackdowns on free speech and protest. Five writers reflect on the state of Palestinian life today.

An infuriating, thuddingly predictable genre of article has emerged: the “Biden is really upset with Israel behind the scenes” story.

Until politicians stop getting a pass for having terrible politics on Israel, they will keep having terrible politics on Israel.

How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.

The only Palestinian American in Congress talks about Gaza, Biden, and how she keeps going.

Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed on what it’s like to report from the heart of a crisis you can’t escape.

The Harvard Law Review censored a piece by a Palestinian scholar on applying a genocide framework to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

Biden's decision to send them to Ukraine is profoundly immoral.

I went to Chile for the anniversary of the 1973 coup to trace the country's painful history—and my own.

A Black, trans, unhoused man was shot to death by a security guard. The DA refused to press charges. Why isn't the national media paying attention?

Mass arrests. Trumped-up charges. Brutal violence. They’re all part of the city’s effort to destroy the movement against the infamous police facility.

Or, how to make a “safe folder.”

The studios are ramping up a campaign of fear in an effort to spook writers like me into taking a bad deal. But we’re not going to fall for it.

To her detractors, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is a political joke. But for her most fervent supporters, she's their only hope.

I huddled with my family in the safest room of our house in Gaza and prayed: If we are to die, may we die softly and not suffer any pain.