Despite Sesame Street’s deeply controversial impending move to premium cable, it blessedly appears Big Bird & Co.…

A nice, totally normal line to cross.

Because primary debates are packaged by cable networks as a pay-per-view brawl, the very normal back and forth…

With the aid of women’s rights groups and volunteers, a group of women in Syria have created a self-sustainable…

The Syrian Civil War was roughly a year old by the time Dalya Zeno and her mother, Rudayna Aksh, fled Aleppo for Los…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Holocaust comparisons are almost never appropriate—or, at least, it…

The video is short: in shaky frames, it captures a Syrian boy lying on the ground surrounded by dust and smoke and…

As some famous guy once wrote, “April is the cruellest month.”

In an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday, Trump talked at length about eating “the most…

In an interview that aired Wednesday morning, Donald Trump told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo in exquisitely vague…

Shortly after “alt-right” poster boy Steve Bannon reportedly called Jared Kushner a “cuck,” signaling an escalating…

On Thursday evening, the Trump administration authorized the launch of 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military…

On Thursday, the U.S. military launched 50 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in retaliation for a devasta…

Hm, I’ve forgotten how to process good news?

• On Monday, the State Department announced that it’s ending U.S. funding for the UN Population Fund, which provides…

Donald Trump—an autocratic embodied Twitter egg who also happens to run the country—implicitly defended Vladimir…

On Friday night, President Donald Trump issued a heartbreaking, intensely xenophobic executive order that…

A woman named Petra Lazlo was caught on tape in 2015 tripping and kicking refugees who had been held in a field by…

After several false starts, evacuations for civilians from the bombarded city of Aleppo began on Monday, and among…

Midway through his discussion of America’s largely ineffective response to the Syrian crisis, President Obama found…