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Poetry
Do You Know . . .
“does she belong to the wind or the wind to her, / and are the greedy wolves / waiting to tear her apart?”
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger April 16, 2026
Essay
Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?
Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological fact.
Jon Danforth-Appell April 16, 2026
Poetry
A stone with wings
“The letter, Sara, is only / a waiting that has learned to walk”
Ghassan Zaqtan April 16, 2026
Analysis
The Anti-Politics of Disengagement
Ariel Sharon’s 2005 settlement withdrawal solidified a consistent policy toward Gaza: Act alone, and make negotiation impossible.
Elisheva Goldberg April 16, 2026
Letter From the Editor
Stay In
A letter from the outgoing editor-in-chief
Arielle Angel April 16, 2026
Fiction
Late
“There are no enemies. There’s no one left.”
Omar Khalifah April 16, 2026
Art
Claude Cahun’s Disavowals
The early 20th-century artist left a legacy of aesthetic and political autonomy in the face of fascism.
Tausif Noor April 16, 2026
Review
The Limits of Diasporism
Despite effectively displacing Israel as the center of left Jewish identity, diasporism might sap substance from our anti-Zionism.
J.A. Cohen April 16, 2026
Report
The Many Equivocations of Curt Mills
The MAGA journalist wants to bring respectability to “America First” opposition to Israel. Just don’t ask him about the Groypers at his heels.
Will Alden April 16, 2026
Feature
Dispatches From Catastrophe
Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide.
Maya Rosen and Jonathan Shamir April 16, 2026
Essay
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Tanvi Misra April 16, 2026
Review
The Rhythm of Revolution
A new edition of a landmark anthology of Palestinian resistance poetry testifies to both a steadfast lineage of anti-colonial resistance and an increasingly under-resourced leftist internationalism.
Zaina Alsous April 16, 2026
Office Hours
Laurie Melrood
“The people who came through the border brought the real news with them. Social change was able to happen because of this type of communication.”
Max Greenberg April 16, 2026
Memoir
A Body That Outlived Its Heart
The grief that at first flowed with my tears now has calcified in my chest with no release.
Abdullah Hany Daher April 15, 2026
News Desk
Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel
What was once a fringe curiosity is now an organized movement with broad governmental and public support.
Maya Rosen April 14, 2026
News Desk
Democratic Senators Face Pressure on Israel Arms Sales Vote
Activists are pushing centrist Democrats to vote against arms sales, linking weapons transfers to the unpopular Iran war.
Josh Nathan-Kazis April 14, 2026
Conversation
When Jewishness Means Genocide
Philosopher Elad Lapidot discusses how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated.
Arielle Angel and Daniel May April 9, 2026
News Desk
Buffer Zone Bills Put Mamdani in a Bind
The synagogue buffer zone measure is veto-proof, but the mayor could still take a stand against the schools bill.
Alex Kane April 8, 2026
News Desk
“Trump Caved”
Trita Parsi explains the shaky US-Iran ceasefire.
Josh Nathan-Kazis April 8, 2026
News Desk
The ADL’s Mamdani Tracking Program Targets Muslim City Officials
The group’s lunge into local politics looks like an anti-Muslim blacklist.
Josh Nathan-Kazis April 1, 2026
News Desk
Democratic Presidential Contenders Are Turning on Israel. Will They Convince Progressives?
As the 2028 primaries approach, Ro Khanna and other Democratic hopefuls are looking to appeal to a base that’s grown more critical of Israel.
Alex Kane March 31, 2026
Review
Israeli Grotesque
Nadav Lapid’s new film, which asks what it means to affirm the Jewish state now, is his most vitriolic repudiation yet.
Mitchell Abidor March 31, 2026
Comic
Running Toward ICE
A record of resistance in Chicagoland
Sarah Lazare March 30, 2026
Conversation
Is Israel’s Economy Collapsing?
Labor historian Joel Beinin argues that narratives of imminent economic demise overlook sources of Israel’s resilience—and the work needed to challenge them.
Maya Rosen March 25, 2026
