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Manchin and Sinema’s Dying Brand of Centrism – The Senate moderates may weaken Biden’s agenda, but they can’t stop the left’s takeover of the Democratic Party.

October 8, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Sanders Pushes Gaza Aid in Exchange for “Yes” Vote on Iron Dome Funds – The Senate’s most prominent Israel critic will join the rest of the Democratic caucus in voting for aid for the anti-missile system.

October 7, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

“The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning” – In Gregg Bordowitz’s decades of aesthetic experimentation, ritualized attention to the present is a route to the past and the future.

October 7, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

What the Jewish Left Learned From Occupy – An oral history

October 5, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

To The Reasoning Of Eternal Voices, To The Waves That Have Kept Me From Reaching You— – “The chaplain tracing a cross / of oil with his thumb on your forehead, and your eyes following / upward his hand, then holding, following, / holding.”

October 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

When Prison Guards Refuse Vaccines – A dispatch from an incarcerated person in Pennsylvania on the risks unvaccinated guards pose to prisoners.

October 1, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

September 29, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

This review appears in our Fall 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Discussed in this essay: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen. New York Review Books, 2021. 248 pages. IN 2018, the week after Philip Roth’s death, […]

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – In The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen tries and fails to reanimate the canonical Jewish American novel.

September 29, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

A Guide to the Fight Over Iron Dome Funding

September 28, 2021David Rutman, Meghan Froy

Last week, Congress was consumed by a debate over whether the United States should give Israel an additional $1 billion in military funds to restock the country’s anti-rocket Iron Dome system following the May conflagration in Israel/Palestine. On September 23rd, after the funding request sparked clashes between progressive and establishment Democrats and fueled claims by […]

The vast majority of progressives overwhelmingly backed Iron Dome funding — but with a caveat

September 27, 2021Mark Hershlag

WASHINGTON (JTA) — After the controversy last week surrounding a progressive push to block extra Iron Dome anti-missile funding for Israel, the final vote to pass it was lopsided: 420-9. And in the end, most progressives backed it: Of the 95 members of the Democrats’ progressive caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, 85 voted […]