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The Fifth Circuit decided to obey the law, for a change. Judge Leslie Southwick testifies during his confirmation hearing. Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the…

What we talk about when we talk about genocide. A Palestinian woman consoles a child following Israeli airstrikes on the al-Fakhoora district of Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on November 4, 2023.  Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the civilian death toll…

Republicans don’t seem to know how to stop bleeding support from the suburbs. Voting signs outside a polling place during the 2023 state elections in Yorktown, Virginia. John C. Clark / The Washington Post via Getty Images Christian Paz is…

It’s a strip of land surrounded by Israel but populated by Palestinians. Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. Before coming to Vox in 2014, he…

Since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank began in 1967, Israelis have been traveling there in groups to live in settlements. Backdropped by the Jewish settlement of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, a Palestinian flag flutters in the West Bank…

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find. Palestinians gather to show their support to a 20-vessel flotilla that set out Monday from the northern Gaza Strip in hopes of…

The move follows bipartisan backlash over rhetoric Tlaib has used in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Palestinian American Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes part in a demonstration organized with the attendance of multiple Jewish groups outside the Capitol in Washington, DC,…

Looking to understand the Israel-Hamas war? Start with these Vox podcast episodes. Israeli forces’ flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Abed Khaled/AP The Israel-Palestine conflict goes back decades, but this latest war has…

What a letter from Biden’s field staff and organizers says about how Democrats see the Israel-Hamas war. President Joe Biden leaves the room at the end of a press conference following a solidarity visit to Israel, on October 18 in…

Since October 7, settler radicals have been attacking Palestinians at an unprecedented rate — uprooting entire communities and threatening a wider war. Palestinian families pack up their belongings, dismantle their homes, and uproot their lives after a decision was made…