'When I returned from Gaza they called me a hero. But I felt I was a monster' Some of Them Killed Civilians in Gaza; Others Just Looked On, or Witnessed Abuse and Cover-ups in the Name of Revenge. Now They're Trying to Cope With Something a Bit Different Than PTSD

As in the US after the Vietnam war, Israel is choosing to stigmatize the individual soldiers who have returned from Gaza afflicted with moral injury, a psychic wound caused by seeing and doing things that are unconscionable. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hard not to admire Wesleyan President Michael Roth, one of the few academic leaders who has vocally and consistently spoken out against Trump’s assault on higher education, and who takes Yale to task in this excellent piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

Tell me again that the FBI should be able to search FISA databases for information about US persons without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Would anyone be even remotely surprised? www.bbc.com/news/article...

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

This should go over extremely well with families struggling to get by in the heartland. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

“The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree A new House report on campus antisemitism seems to have involved minimal engagement with actual Jews at actual universities

A professor of Jewish studies at Sarah Lawrence blasts a House report on antisemitism that was written without consulting faculty or Jewish students, who it seeks to turn into “instruments of a broader ideological battle” against liberal values and independent thought. forward.com/opinion/8197...

Hands Off NYC and Unidos-MN are the Recipients of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship - Type Media Center © Type Media Center document.write(new Date().getFullYear()). All Rights Reserved.

Type Media Center is pleased to announce that Hands Off NYC and Minneapolis-based Unidos-MN will each receive the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“Not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.”

But the prospect of the energy industry having to spend money to go green was, in Roberts’s opinion, irreversible harm.

Pope Leo XIV channeling Dylan.

How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works

How did Elon Musk go from Silicon Valley nerd worried about climate change to chainsaw-wielding billionaire eviscerating government agencies?

On Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's incisive new book, "Muskism: A Guide For the Perplexed."

Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up

Iran’s Regime Has Changed—for the Worse The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace.

“We created a reality that is worse than what Iranians were facing before the war,” said Danny Citrinowicz, who formerly headed the Iran desk for Israeli military intelligence.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Opinion | Gaza’s Rubble Is the Grave of Our Future

The war Is not over in Gaza and the tragedies “come in multiples.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...

How do you top warning that a whole civilization will die? By calling the Pope weak on crime, naturally.

I spent six months in Budapest many years, as a fellow at Central European University, before Viktor Orbán came to power and started attacking the values it stood for while consolidating his power. Very happy for Hungarians tonight & hoping the example they have set will spread.

It’s been quite a week for JD Vance.

Thanks so much; contesting the idea that “the Jews” are a monolith is exactly why I wrote the piece.

This essay by @epress.bsky.social does an excellent job
illuminating the wrenching cracks among American Jews. It is a sensitively-woven description, not a political argument--and a reminder to those otherwise inclined that "the Jews" are not, and have been never been, a monolithic lobby group.

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

No one has written more cogently about the dangers that extreme weather poses to cities than @ericklinenberg.bsky.social. His piece about how urban planners can mitigate the damage caused by flash floods on a warming planet is fascinating and important. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Looking for measures of Trump's success in Iran? Make sure you start with the petrol/gas station. And then assess his vile and violent threats on Easter morning in the context of a) diplomacy b) national security strategy c) the Christian values his campaign affiliated with

How Gaza and Zionism Are Dividing Synagogues | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC New Yorker contributor Eyal Press on how disagreements over Israel, Gaza and Zionism itself are dividing synagogues, Jewish families and communities across America.

Eyal Press, contributing writer to The New Yorker, shared his reporting on how disagreements over Israel, Gaza and Zionism itself are dividing synagogues, Jewish families and communities across America.

Take a listen:
www.wnyc.org/story/how-ga...

Thanks so much, Emily.

At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

Excellent Passover reading by the impeccable @epress.bsky.social: The Divide www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Among American Jews, disagreements over the war in Gaza have disrupted family dinners, upended friendships, and splintered congregations. Eyal Press reports from a synagogue divided over Israel. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7FQbEQ

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

Very good piece by @epress.bsky.social. All of these schisms are replicated in Canada too of course.

At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

Half a century ago, Norman Podhoretz celebrated the fact that virtually all American Jews had been “converted to Zionism.” Fifty years later, the consensus he hailed has shattered, as I report in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Rapid and “Unprecedented” Collapse of American Democracy The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.”

The well respected annual Democracy Report, released by researchers at the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gorhenburg, recently downgraded the US. My latest Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation explains the implications. www.thenation.com/article/poli...