All Articles
Rereadings
On the “Victims of the Victims”
Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide
Ussama Makdisi January 17, 2025
Report
Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
Theia Chatelle December 20, 2024
Review
Sonic Bloom
On Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann’s The Klezmer Project
Sanders Isaac Bernstein December 19, 2024
Review
No Exit
On Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake
Nora Caplan-Bricker December 19, 2024
Report
Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?
A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
Mari Cohen December 19, 2024
Comic
Hey Chubbs!
Christopher Blackwell December 19, 2024
Poetry
Translation
“When he says / I want to get the get out of here / he wants to go home and by that / he means where he wants to die”
Hayan Charara December 19, 2024
Poetry
Closer
“A perfect day // Can be a backdrop so calm”
Farid Matuk December 19, 2024
Essay
The Algeria Analogy
We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predict
outcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
Arthur Asseraf December 19, 2024
Report
Defunding Dissent
Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
Will Alden December 19, 2024
Office Hours
Office Hours: Merle Favis
“There are cracks that exist in our communities, and we need to build from them.”
Maya Schkolne December 19, 2024
Fiction
Rochelle
“Our friendship was the ideology of my life.”
Lily Meyer December 19, 2024
Conversation
Difference Without Power
In her recent book, The Reeducation of Race, Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.
Ben Ratskoff December 17, 2024
Art
Things Not Seen
Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.
Hyperallergic x Jewish Currents December 10, 2024
Analysis
Bernard-Henri Lévy Speaks the American Media’s Lingua Franca
In a new book, the French intellectual exemplifies a liberal Zionist discourse that has fewer and fewer spokespeople to choose from.
Peter Beinart December 9, 2024
Analysis
Trump’s Israel Instincts Don’t Matter
In his second term, as in his first, Trump may criticize Netanyahu—but his advisers will outmaneuver him to ensure that Israel enjoys a free hand.
Peter Beinart November 26, 2024
Comic
Euro Trip
Eli Valley November 25, 2024
Report
The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech
Pro-Israel groups have remade Title VI into a tool of repression—and a second Trump term will supercharge their crusade.
Alex Kane November 15, 2024
Poetry
Chattahoochee
“She’s taken the law into // her own hands, the narrative’s / taken a turn.”
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon November 15, 2024
Opinion
We Are Never Going Back
Democrats’ bid to return to a bygone liberal era failed—and now we’re all going to pay the price.
David Klion November 8, 2024
Conversation
“Resistance Through a Realist Lens”
Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar discusses the left’s relationship to Hamas and armed resistance.
Arielle Angel November 5, 2024
Essay
The Destruction of Worlds
A reading of Parshat Breishit
Maya Rosen October 25, 2024
Dispatch
Exile from Gaza
Four Palestinians describe how they left Gaza—and how Gaza never leaves them.
Zak Hania, Safa Al-Majdalawi, Amal Al-Majdalawi, and Mohammed Ghalayini October 23, 2024
Poetry
A Building
“in the cloud of dust that crossed the window, / in the echoes of the bomb that leveled the house next door, / in the sirens of the ambulance that couldn’t reach / the wound.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah October 18, 2024
