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The Long Counterrevolution

Challenging the Supreme Court’s rollback of basic rights demands a radical new constitutional vision.

Dylan Saba
Illuminations
The Ginzburg Geography
Jewlia Eisenberg’s posthumous album pays tribute to histories of Jewish anti-fascism.
Ianna Hawkins Owen
Conversation
Sex According to the State
Andrea Long Chu
Conversation
The View from the Ground
What overturning Roe means for abortion funds.
Arielle Swernoff
Review
An Object Not Meant to Object
On The Wayland Rudd Collection
Zoé Samudzi
Review
Against Impossibility
Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?
Helen Betya Rubinstein
History
The Soviet Jewry Movement, Revisited
At its root, the struggle over the fate of Soviet Jews was a struggle over where in the world Jews belonged.
Report
Progressive Lawmakers Demand Stop to Israeli “War Crime” in Masafer Yatta
Isaac Scher
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Pekudai
Can people in pursuit of freedom trust each other?
Ari M. Brostoff
Poetry
After
“Dark of plenty, of fracture. God’s dark / of perfect recall.”
Maya C. Popa
Fiction
An Artist’s Revenge
“Scowling, he grumbled to himself: It’s no wonder the rich view artists as their pawns, and art as their plaything . . . No one makes real art anymore!”
Wolf Wieviorka
From the Newsletter
The Arkansas Anti-Boycott Case, Explained
A ruling by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the state’s anti-BDS law could be heading to the Supreme Court.
Mari Cohen
A Historic Win for the Left in Colombia
Progressive International’s David Adler discusses Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez’s breakthrough victory, and Latin America’s wider shift.
David Klion
General Mills Avoids Anti-BDS Backlash for Pulling Out of Settlements
By making no explicit political comment, the company has been spared the penalties Ben & Jerry’s faced.
Mari Cohen
The Hijacking of Atonement
In Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust is used to silence critics of Israel.
Peter Beinart
Current Issue Winter/Spring 2022
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Editor’s Picks
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    Bela’s Pilgrim
  2. 2
    The Passion of 964 Park Place
  3. 3
    The Many Oblivions of Babi Yar
  4. 4
    Eric Adams’s Moral Panics
  5. 5
    Our Oligarch
  6. 6
    Fables of Finitude
  7. 7
    From Minneapolis to Jerusalem
  8. 8
    Bad Education
  9. 9
    The Nakba Demands Justice
  10. 10
    On Loving Jews
State Legislatures
The Anti-Trans Lobby’s Real Agenda
A new wave of legislation seeks to enshrine an evangelical understanding of the gender binary and exclude transness from the public sphere.
Jules Gill-Peterson
Rehearsing Defeat
Rallies won’t save abortion rights. What will?
Arielle Angel
The Insurrectionists’ Reward
A new wave of anti-protest legislation effectively gives far-right vigilantes the power of the police.
Joshua Clover
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Essay

Refusing to Bury the Living

Emigrating from the USSR to the US meant fleeing one system of mass incarceration for another.

Egina Manachova
Activestills
Palestinians Mourn the Death of Man Killed by Israeli Settler
Photographer: Oren Ziv/Activestills
On June 23rd, Palestinians mourned the killing of Ali Hassan Harb, 27, who was stabbed in the chest by an Israeli settler. Just before the killing, a band of settlers crossed into Harb's hometown of Iskaka to build an illegal... more
Conversation
“You Cannot Unsee This Image”
Rashid Khalidi on the colonial logic that devalues eyewitness accounts of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh
Dylan Saba
Report
The ADL Doubles Down on Opposing the Anti-Zionist Left
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt argued that Palestine-solidarity groups are “the photo inverse of the extreme right,” and promised that fighting them would become more central to his mission.
Mari Cohen and Isaac Scher

Letters from Our Readers

On “Rehearsing Defeat”
In a recent essay on the state of abortion and reproductive justice organizing, Arielle Angel bemoans a depressingly tame rally held at Foley Square the day after the leak of... more
Safia Albaiti, Camila Valle, and Nantina Vgontzas
New York, NY
On “The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour”
In Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago’s recent article, “The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour,” the authors neglect an issue that is central to the subject at hand: Zemmour’s specifically... more
Ilan Benattar
Los Angeles, CA
Illustrated Essay