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The Communities Losing Ground to Climate Change
Futuristic novels brim with images of coastal cities drowning in rising seas: New York City in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, Melbourne in George Turner’s The Drowned Towers, London in Megan...
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The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes
A man in Tokyo has exploded. But why? He died mid-conversation with his mentee Wato Tachibana, a sweet-faced young surgeon. The violence seems to be without cause; the explosion has no clear mechanism....
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The Russia Investigation After Jeff Sessions
It’s virtually certain that President Donald Trump will fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions by the end of the year. In an interview with Bloomberg News on Thursday, the president said he wouldn’t...
View ArticleWhat Would You Ask Brett Kavanaugh?
Brett Kavanaugh’s big week on Capitol Hill is finally here. President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and Wednesday for his...
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The Other Political Correctness
There is an epidemic of self-censorship at U.S. universities on the subject of China, one that limits debate and funnels students and academics away from topics likely to offend the Chinese Communist...
View ArticleThe Misleading Chaos of the Kavanaugh Hearing
The first day of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing is typically a staid affair. Senators from the president’s party read opening statements extolling the nominee’s virtues, while senators from the...
View ArticleDavid Remnick, Steve Bannon, and the Revolt Against the Elites
The New Yorker announced this Labor Day that Steve Bannon—the architect of Donald Trump’s ethno-nationalist campaign—would appear as a headline guest at its October festival, to be interviewed by...
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The Country Club
In 1944, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People drew up a list of complaints. The Allied powers had met at Dumbarton Oaks to lay a foundation for the creation of the United...
View ArticleWhat Brett Kavanaugh Understands About Abortion
Brett Kavanaugh’s answers to senators on abortion rights during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday could be summed up in two words: “I understand.” President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace...
View ArticleA Pivotal Moment for Hungry Americans
There are few bright spots in the landscape of American inequality. Wages remain stagnant, the racial wealth gap persists, and student loan debt hit a cumulative $1.5 trillion this year. But food...
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A Homeland in America
I am exhausted by Israel. My exhaustion isn’t much compared to the humiliation and oppression of the Palestinians, who have withstood the forced conversion of the occupied West Bank into a skein of...
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The Deep Sources of a Great Divide
The growing divergence of American Jews from Israel is actually composed of two different phenomena: on the one hand, there is anger towards Israel among a set of American Jewish elites, especially...
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Two Ways of Being Jewish
A Diaspora Divided Twelve writers address the changing relationship between American Jews and Israel Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth...
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Don’t Give Up
For decades now, the Jewish communities in Israel and the U.S. have been drifting apart. While almost three-quarters of American Jews continue to vote Democratic and a majority identify as liberal, the...
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The Intersectional Jewish-American
In 1967, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) published a two-page spread in its Newsletter on “The Palestine Problem.” The group was in the midst of transitioning from being an...
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Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond
I grew up with a Disneyland version of Israel: It was a country that had truly been a land without people waiting for a people without a land. It was immaculately conceived after Zionist leaders...
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Israel’s Prerogatives
The politics of Israel often produce unintended consequences in the Diaspora. Take the Nation-State law that was recently pushed by the government and narrowly approved in the Knesset. It is a law that...
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Joshua Cohen Israel's Season of Discontent Michael Koplow Fraught Relationship, Fated Bond Ruth Margalit The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance Theodore Ross Who's Afraid of Criticizing Israel?...
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A Memoir of Disillusionment
My relationship with Israel started before I can remember. Growing up Orthodox, I started learning to read Hebrew at roughly the same time I started learning to read English, although my Hebrew had a...
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The Perils of the Ultra-Orthodox Alliance
The weeks before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, breaks for summer recess are often a telling time. It’s when the government tries to cram through as many contentious yet politically expedient...
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