Michael G. Baylor

Michael G. Baylor is a retired professor of history at Lehigh University.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispers to President Donald Trump during a roundtable meeting on antifa in the State Dining Room at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Trump administration using antifa as political straw man

October 17, 2025 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: The problem with calling antifa a terrorist organization is that there is no organization named antifa

Palestinian children line up July 15, 2025, for a portion of hot food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

Opinion: Gaza Strip aid agency is a lethal sham

July 29, 2025 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation violates the most basic principles of humanitarian relief operations

Israeli soldiers and police clash with right wing protesters, after they broke into the Bayt Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists who were suspected of abuse of a detainee following the October 7 attack in Israel, on July 29, 2024 in Kfar Yona. The Israeli military said on July 29 nine soldiers were being held in a case of suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee at a facility holding Palestinians arrested from Gaza during the war. (Photo by Oren Ziv / AFP) (Photo by OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)

Your View: Hold Israel accountable for mistreating detainees

November 20, 2024 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: Politically active citizens who would like to make sure our government respects human rights should do all that they can — by phone, mail or protest vigil — to...

The United States and Israel have pushed back on threatened arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, related to the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Your View: Israel and US attacks on International Criminal Court are shocking

July 22, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: It is shocking that Israel and the U.S., two states that claim to be stalwart defenders of a “rules-based international order,” should work together to subvert the work of...

A ball of fire and black smoke rises moments after an Israeli air strike targeted a residential building June 3, 2024, in the city of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas's unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,190 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures. Militants also took some 250 hostages, 120 of whom remain in Gaza, including 37 the army says are dead. At least 36,479 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli bombardments and ground offensive since Oct. 7, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory. (BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Your View: Artificial intelligence is leading to more deaths in Gaza. That should scare everyone.

June 5, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: Israel’s innovative use of artificial intelligence is surely drawing the interest of Pentagon strategists.

The Rev. Munther Isaac sits by the Nativity scene Dec. 21, 2023, at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem in the Middle East. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post)

Your View: A tale of very different Christmases in two Bethlehems

January 11, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: In the Lehigh Valley this year Bethlehem enjoyed its usual Christmas festivities. Main Street was filled with out-of-town visitors and seasonal cheer. Christkindlmart enjoyed crowds of eager shoppers. The...

*** BESTPIX *** WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump break into the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building during demonstrations in the nation's capital. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Your View: How the Jan. 6 riot compares with Hitler’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch

June 11, 2023 at 7:30 a.m.

Both putsches rested on Big Lies — proclamations of wrongdoing that were entirely false. Trump insisted he won the election of 2020 in a landslide, but his opponents “stole” his...

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