The Art of the Peace Board

Trump says U.S. is still negotiating with Iran but Tehran isn’t ‘ready’ for a deal

President Donald Trump said in remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday that the U.S. is continuing to negotiate with Tehran even amid U.S. strikes on Iran, but added that he didn’t think that Iranian leaders were ready to make a deal. “They are talking to us right now. They’d love to make... <a href="">Read More</a>

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens for Senate

With less than two weeks until Michigan’s contentious Democratic Senate primary, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) on Friday, offering a burst of momentum to the moderate Democrat’s campaign against progressive, anti-Israel firebrand Abdul El-Sayed.&nbsp; “Haley will do whatever it takes to get things done for people in Michigan, and we need... <a href="">Read More</a>

Jewish leaders blame Mamdani for fueling Manhattan attack, while most Dems avoid pointing fingers

Shockwaves from the Tisha B’Av stabbings on the Upper West Side reverberated through New York’s Jewish and Democratic party elected leadership on Friday, as some blamed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s invective against Israel, while others called more broadly to turn down the temperature on the rhetoric in the city. Thursday afternoon, a man... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/05/michael-roth-democrat-congressional-candidate-new-jersey/">Read More</a>

Netanyahu to meet with Trump at White House on Tuesday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Monday, where he will meet with President Donald Trump and attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), his office announced on Friday.&nbsp; Slated for Tuesday, the Oval Office meeting — Trump and Netanyahu’s first in-person sitdown since the start of the Iran war in... <a href="">Read More</a>

‘The tattoo should have been enough’: Top Platner advisor seeks repentance for Platner support

Morris Katz, a close advisor to Graham Platner who stood by the embattled Maine Democrat until the final days of his Senate race, is now adopting a more contrite tone as he looks back on what went wrong in the campaign, one of the most closely watched in the country this year.&nbsp; “The tattoo should have been enough,” Katz said in an interview on “The Ezra Klein Show” from The New York Times. He was referring to Platner’s tattoo of a Totenkopf, a symbol associated with the Nazi regime’s elite —&nbsp;and brutal —&nbsp;SS unit. Platner denied knowing what the tattoo, a... <a href="">Read More</a>