In late January 2026, a social media video released by Dr. Mehmet Oz — the Administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — sparked widespread concern and condemnation from Armenian-American communities in Southern California and from state leaders, including California Governor Gavin Newsom. In the footage, Dr. Oz appears to drive […]
Before the world learned to name evil with the word Holocaust, the term was already used to describe the annihilation of a Christian people — the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire. In the early 20th century, journalists, missionaries, and diplomats referred to what they witnessed as a Christian holocaust, a catastrophe of biblical scale that
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Peter Balakian has released his latest work, New York Trilogy, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book-length poem unfolds across three interconnected sections, tracing a journey through decades of personal and collective transformation—from the turbulence of the late 1960s to the complexities of the twenty-first century. Through Balakian’s distinctive, elliptical
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