Sudan is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, fueled by the recklessness of countries sending in arms and by the complacency of the international community. @UNReliefChief @TFletcher speaks eloquently to the UN Security Council on Sudan.

In Sudan, the brutal RSF militia is besieging the city of El Obeid. It may be repeating its siege last year of El Fasher where it slaughtered 60,000 people. World leaders warn of mass atrocities but won't name the country behind this mass murder and mass rape. So I will: It's the UAE. Neither the Biden nor Trump administration was willing to offend the UAE by holding it accountable for what Washington described as the genocide unfolding in Sudan. Trump, whose family is enriched by business dealings with the UAE, is silent. So the slaughter continues. The UAE even has a candidate for UN Secretary General, and people are too polite to point out that a country empowering mass atrocities might not be ideal for that role. I write: "We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights." A gift link to the column: nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opini… Thoughts?

Amazing reporting on the forgotten civil war in Myanmar by @hkbeech and @berehulak. They reached and traveled through a rebel-held area in central Myanmar that others have been unable to report from. Powerful journalism on a brutal war: nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world…