On a Man’s Greatness
One of Israel’s most esteemed poets celebrates her teacher, scholar Paul Ernst Kahle, for his quiet heroism in Nazi Germany.
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How to Give Yourself an Abortion
A guide to self-managing abortion using misoprostol pills.
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The Homeless Radical
Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.
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A Springtime of Erasure
A cartoonist reflects on a right-wing smear campaign that summoned the specter of “Degenerate Art.”
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How to Fight Antisemitism
The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians.
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Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh
Our burial practices offer more than a way of dealing with the dead; they are antifascism in action.
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Just Playing Along
What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.
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An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System
A Jewish death row inmate in Texas confronts the same forces that kill and incarcerate Black and Brown people daily.
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