All Articles
Review
The More Things Change
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham imagines the world exactly as it always was.
Andrea Long Chu July 8, 2020
Essay
Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine
The two-state solution is dead. It’s time for liberal Zionists to abandon Jewish–Palestinian separation and embrace equality.
Peter Beinart July 7, 2020
Memoir
Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity
“A poor Jew trying to climb out of her class learns to associate her lower-classness with her Jewishness (also her femaleness).”
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz July 6, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #7: “repair a world or build / a new one inside my body”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Pablo Neruda, and Cameron Awkward-Rich.
Kamran Javadizadeh, Robin Beth Schaer, and Laurel Chen July 3, 2020
Comic
Invisible Violence
The protesters of today are writing in the margins of our cities. It’s about time we read them.
Julia Alekseyeva July 3, 2020
Analysis
The New Dutch Far Right
Thierry Baudet and the party he leads are laundering racist politics into the mainstream.
Nicolaas P. Barr July 2, 2020
Review
It Happened Here
The recent TV adaptation of The Plot Against America rejects Philip Roth’s vision of American exceptionalism.
Alisa Solomon July 1, 2020
Conversation
Communal Money
Amy Schiller discusses the limits of “scientific philanthropy,” and how money can be a tool toward collective power-sharing.
Josephine Riesman June 30, 2020
Review
No Time for Nostalgia
When We Were Arabs does little to expand the political possibilities for a younger, American Mizrahi milieu.
Emily Suzanne Lever June 29, 2020
Report
Leaked Memo Details ADL’s Annexation Response
A leaked memo shows the group hopes to maintain a pro-civil-rights veneer while opposing any policy pressure on Israel.
Joshua Leifer June 26, 2020
Poetry
No Goods, No Managers
“We have a million pens but not a one fucking / works”
Jake Orbison June 26, 2020
Analysis
Jamaal Bowman Reminds Progressives They Can Win
The 44-year-old Bronx principal deals a blow to the Democratic establishment—and the hawkish pro-Israel groups that rallied behind his opponent.
Joshua Leifer June 25, 2020
Conversation
Vexed Solidarities
Cathy Park Hong discusses the insidiousness of American success narratives, white shame, and the difficulty of defining Asian America.
Helen Betya Rubinstein June 24, 2020
Report
Jewish Groups Embrace BLM, With Conditions
Some Jewish groups appear to be putting aside Israel-related grievances with the Black Lives Matter movement. Others aim to show support without backing its more radical demands.
Mari Cohen June 23, 2020
Analysis
Why de Blasio Defends the Police
In a city reliant on real estate capital—and thus, on policing—even a self-professed liberal mayor is still, ultimately, a law-and-order mayor.
Joshua Leifer June 22, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #6: “In the exhalations of Americans there is a crumbling empire”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, and Etel Adnan.
Kazim Ali, Joshua Gutterman Tranen, and Zaina Alsous June 19, 2020
Conversation
Changing the Haredi Discourse
Israeli activist Pnina Pfeuffer discusses her efforts to transform Haredi communities from within—and the failures of communal leadership during the pandemic.
Libby Lenkinski June 19, 2020
Conversation
Electoral Limbo
A roundtable on the elections delayed or canceled around the world because of Covid-19, and their implications for already-frayed democratic institutions.
Madeleine Schwartz June 18, 2020
Report
Questioning the Covenant
Christian Zionism is at the height of its powers, but evangelical critics of Israel are finding their voice.
Arianna Skibell June 17, 2020
Dispatch
Watching the Protests from Prison
We cannot protest our treatment at the hands of the police state, but we are looking to the protesters with pride.
Christopher Blackwell June 16, 2020
How To
Safer in the Streets
A free, shareable tool for protesters illustrating best practices for dealing with the police.
SITS June 15, 2020
Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition
Exodus: Mishpatim
Terrible violence will unfold while the Israelites are kept busy with lines and lines of civic code.
Sarah Chihaya June 12, 2020
Poetry
The Bird of Sorrow
“A bullet passes through my neck / my blood / begins to speak through my feathers”
Garous Abdolmalekian June 12, 2020
Conversation
Stealing Away in America
Vicky Osterweil, author of the forthcoming book In Defense of Looting, discusses the ways that looting contests the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire.
Zoé Samudzi June 10, 2020
