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 CONFLICT DURING the January 6, 2021, riots at US Capitol Building in Washington, DC, included white Christian supremacists.

Americans split on the state of democracy and the potential for violence - study

 OUSTED US House speaker Kevin McCarthy walks back to his office after a motion to end his leadership passed on Tuesday.

Israel and the US are both divided nations - opinion

 SPLITTING A disputed tallit is a familiar concept in Judaism. The good news is that the subject has always been controversial. The bad news is that the debate has reached a boiling point, says the writer.

Israelis must reconcile “Jewish” and “democratic” - opinion

 Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 19, 2023.

Will primaries bring democracy into Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid faction? - analysis

 MK SIMCHA ROTHMAN, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, speaks during the debate in the parliamentary plenum, before the passage of the reasonableness legislation, in July.

The reasonableness law prevents the tyranny of the judiciary - opinion

By NATHAN LEWIN
 IRAN’S PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi gestures to the audience as he completes his address to the UN General Assembly, last week.

Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel target the pillars of democracy - opinion

 Drone footage of an anti-judicial reform protest in Jerusalem on September 11, 2023

Israel's most important export is its democratic struggle - opinion

By REEF ITZHAKI
 COVERING YOUR mouth with your hand or clothing when coughing or sneezing, protects other people from germs and is polite, says the writer. Illustrative photo.

Yom Kippur: Examining our habits and finding Jewish unity - comment

 ESTHER HAYUT

Gatekeepers of democracy: The 3 women who are the Israeli gov't's biggest enemies

 THE ORIGINAL scroll of the Declaration of Independence: The words are not a hastily drafted text; they are constitutive words, the writer argues.

If the Declaration of Independence falls, Israeli unity will fall too - opinion

 PALESTINIAN POLICE enter Jericho for the first time, welcomed by ecstatic citizens, May 1994.

What will the Israeli-Palestinian conflict look like in 30 years?

 ANTI-JUDICIAL overhaul demonstrators protest at Ben-Gurion Airport as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flies to the US, earlier this week. Netanyahu disparaged demonstrators as ‘joining forces with the PLO, Iran, and others.’

Israel's future dystopia: Will democracy be replaced by electocracy? - opinion

 People gather to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to California as he is scheduled to meet with entrepreneur Elon Musk, at Union Square in San Francisco, California, US. September 18, 2023.

Dershowitz to 'Post': Rabbis should not protest Israel at the UN - opinion

 A man reacts at the site of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Diyarbakir, Turkey February 8, 2023.

Is there anything to hope for in a world so damaged? - opinion

 PROTESTERS HUG during an anti-judicial reform protest near the Knesset, in July.

Saying goodbye to a year better forgotten