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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Scott Wiener's Pivot on Gaza Isn’t Enough for the Left - In San Francisco, a House race shows the limits of playing catch-up on Palestine.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Jewish High Schools Will Send Kids to Rally Outside Mamdani’s House - Leaders are using students as “protest pawns,” critics say.
Monday, September 14, 2026
Hold Still - "Can a question be a story? Maybe that’s the wrong question to ask. Or the wrong way to ask it."
Thursday, September 10, 2026
“No Bigger Failure” - Spencer Ackerman on the legacy of America’s wars of choice.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
This Is My Father - "Was this fear of 'the danger' meant to distract them from the pain eating at their souls?"
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Can Socialism Win Without Palestine? - In LA, mayoral candidate Nithya Raman needs DSA’s muscle. Will the group come out in force?
Thursday, September 3, 2026
“It Feels Like a Death Sentence” - In the West Bank, settlers are stealing livestock to push Palestinians off their land.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
PEN America Staffer Who Led Work on Palestine is Resigning - Liesl Gerntholtz headed the group’s Freedom to Write Center.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Could Jewish Democrats Actually Cost Abdul El-Sayed a Senate Seat? - Our political reporter explains why the Jewish vote matters in Michigan.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Overturning Anti-BDS Laws is the Next Fight for the Pro-Palestine Left - Amid a pro-Palestine shift, advocates are looking to roll back state anti-BDS laws. It won’t be easy.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
The Smile of the Sphinx - “And what might lie within the men you rule?”
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
A Scary Night at Synagogue - After a frightening incident at a Manhattan shul, Jewish leaders cast blame in the wrong directions
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
<em>Birthright</em> Stages a Tired Debate - The play is among a rash of productions that seek to reassure Zionist audiences they’re worth arguing with.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Rhapsody of an Abandoned Checkpoint - "For the first time in a very long time they weren’t afraid of each other."
Monday, August 17, 2026
Jill Magid’s Tender Subterfuge - Through her investigations of institutional life, the conceptual artist exposes the vulnerabilities in seemingly impervious structures of power.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Visions of the Merkava - An exilic image of spiritual ascension has become a colonial technology of annihilation.
Monday, August 17, 2026
House Arrest - In Elaine Kraf’s hallucinatory novels, misogynistic violence is a conspiracy to drive women mad.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Image Study - "I look away from the blank crib / instead at instead into a photograph on a screen"
Monday, August 17, 2026
Diary of a Transgender Ideology Extremist - Trans life in the throes of a moral panic
Monday, August 17, 2026
Back to the Bund - Molly Crabapple’s book has rekindled interest in the 20th-century movement’s vision—but can we adapt it for our time?
Monday, August 17, 2026
The Queue - In Gaza, the wait is not only for bread or water but for permission to exist another day.
Monday, August 17, 2026
The Torture Regime - How Israeli prisons went from centers of Palestinian resistance to machines of Palestinian death
Monday, August 17, 2026
From THE NEW FOREST - "Why does digging up an old field evoke this sense of possibility?"
Thursday, August 13, 2026
A Choice for Liberals in Michigan: Zionism or Fighting Trump? - Establishment Democrats are backing El-Sayed, but Jewish liberals aren’t following along.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The Jewish Establishment Can’t Face Reality - Cowed by its radical base, a major Jewish organization throws a spin doctor under the bus.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The Faces of Tuba - Testimonies from a settler assault on a West Bank village.
Monday, August 10, 2026
Shahin - "Even though his skin was fair and his eyes were green, customers only saw the dark features of his face."
Friday, August 7, 2026
<em>Giant</em> Gave the People What They Want - Audiences and critics alike were determined to see complexity and nuance in the blockbuster play, which told them precisely what they wanted to hear.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
General Election Fight Looms After Abdul El-Sayed’s Narrow Win in Michigan - The Democratic candidate survived record spending by AIPAC.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Israeli Prosecutors Will File Charges Against Settler Who Shot Activist Awdah Hathaleen - In a rare prosecution for settler violence, Yinon Levi will face manslaughter charges.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
With Jewish Establishment’s Help, a Black Political Group Battles the Left - Inside an under-the-radar organization opposing the pro-Palestine left in Democratic primaries
Thursday, July 30, 2026
A Year After a Killing, the Siege Worsens in Umm al-Khair - Police raid a memorial for the slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment - In its quest to defend Israel, establishment Jewry has abandoned liberal democracy in the US.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Jewish Left Conference Dumps MAGA Provocateur Curt Mills After Outcry - The intellectual leader of MAGA’s anti-Israel wing won’t appear at the conference.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
In Rhode Island, a Mayoral Candidate Borrows From the Mamdani Playbook - Activists say the small state offers a path to power for the pro-Palestine left.
Friday, July 24, 2026
Jewish Leaders Blame Mamdani’s Criticism of Netanyahu for a Manhattan Stabbing - The establishment wants to paint anti-genocide politics as anti-Jewish.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
The Absent Angel - A reflection on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit
Monday, July 20, 2026
Unbuild the Cages - Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
Thursday, July 16, 2026
MAGA Firebrand Curt Mills Will Speak at a Jewish Left Conference. Does He Belong? - One speaker plans to drop out of the conference over Mills’s participation.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Insurgent Democrats Face Their Toughest Test Yet in Michigan - Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is looking to extend the left’s winning streak. It won’t be easy.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Beirut Fragments - An account of Israel’s 1982 bombing campaign echoes through the decades.
Thursday, July 9, 2026
The Ecology of Dispossession - Israel's nature reserves in the West Bank use the language of conservation to restrict Palestinian life while facilitating settlement expansion.
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
The War on Palestinian Schools - Schools across the West Bank have slashed instruction as Israel withholds billions in Palestinian tax revenues.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
The Healthcare System Is Collapsing in the West Bank - As Israel chokes the Palestinian Authority, patients can’t get basic medical services in the West Bank.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Mamdani is Showing the Way - If Democrats want to beat the populist right, they should follow the New York City mayor on Israel.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Supporters of Palestine Are Winning Inside the Democratic Party - Four years ago, unconditional support of Israel was the safest position for Democrats. Not anymore.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
An Earthquake Just Hit New York Politics - Our political reporter explains the left’s near-sweep in the city’s Democratic primaries.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Five Stories We’re Watching on Election Night in New York - The first big political test for Zohran Mamdani has arrived.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
The End of Aid to Israel Isn’t a Win For the Pro-Palestine Left - As the US and Israel trade military aid for military integration, the pro-Palestine left loses one of its most potent political weapons.
Monday, June 15, 2026
“The War to Bring Democracy to Iran” - The American press has long covered the US’s wars not as criminal invasions but as well-intentioned, if reckless, efforts to spread freedom—a pattern that continues with Iran.
