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Weekly Roundup - 08/09/24

This week: In the latest episode of On The Nose, senior reporter Alex Kane speaks with author and analyst Trita Parsi and scholar Karim Makdisi about the escalating regional war between Israel and its Western allies on the one hand, and Iran-backed forces on the other.

In a bonus episode we are presenting in collaboration with Unsettled, Ilana Levinson speaks to political analyst Tareq Baconi about how Israel’s assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh is reshaping Palestinian politics and ceasefire talks.

Following Cori Bush’s defeat in Missouri’s Democratic primary, we are resharing Alex Kane’s November conversation with the representative, where she talked about fighting for a ceasefire in Washington.

On the five year anniversary of David Berman’s death, we are sharing a reflection by editor-in-chief Arielle Angel and managing editor Nathan Goldman about how the singer-songwriter’s alienation from Jewish community spawned his own capacious kind of Judaism.

The Escalating Regional War
The Killing of Ismail Haniyeh

From the Archive

Cori Bush’s Ceasefire Plea
Obituary
Kaddish for David Berman
His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.
Arielle Angel and Nathan Goldman