no majority support for Hamas--as has been the case all along if anyone was paying attention...

The Italian P.M.’s recent spat with Trump aside, she remains a right-wing figure. Global progressives should be looking to Elly Schlein.

Don't Mourn, Organize (in response to the Park Slope Food Coop vote....)

On the same day that the world saw horrific video and photos of Israel’s wreckless, racist and criminal National Security Minister taunt, attack, and demean international activists who were part of a ...

It's an Election Year, Thank Goodness

It's not violent Jewish individuals who are the problem; they are the manifestion of the problem

in commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day

I Prefer My Jewish Culture Alive and Flourishing--both

We need to rediscover humility and promote peace and reconciliation

Talking with journalist Jo-Ann Mort about Trump's plans for military action

~Surely Being Pro-Israel Can't Mean Supporting the Current Israeli Gov't~

we must patch the world the best we can.....

To Susie Wiles: from one daughter of an alcoholic to another - there is such a thing as a dry drunk. You don’t have to imbibe to have the personality - she called it exactly right .

Re-reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: feminism, communism, and Blairism

Re-reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: feminism, communism, and Blairism

poetry and politics can be intertwined to make a difference

Raised a liberal, he is now driving Trump’s anti-immigration policies

Raised a liberal, he is now driving Trump’s anti-immigration policies

With victories across the US last week, including Zohran Mamdani's in New York, the Democratic party showed it can still woo voters back from Trump. N...

writing poetry in a time of desperate politics

Read on for important details for this Brookline Booksmith event.

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

A weak Keir Starmer made a baffling invitation to Trump. Then, via Peter Mandelson, the Epstein story inserted itself into the narrative.

This is an “only in America” story, all right. Creepy, corporate, neofascist America, that is.

Le porte-parole du secrétaire général de l’ONU a déclaré qu’il était « important » que tous les Etats et les observateurs permanents, y compris les Palestiniens, soient représentés lors d’un sommet prévu la veille du début de l’Assemblée générale.

The slaughter of Palestinians continues. Most Israelis hate the war and their government. But a tiny right-wing faction controls all.

French president rejects Israeli prime minister’s accusations that France is fuelling antisemitism

The slaughter of Palestinians continues. Most Israelis hate the war and their government. But a tiny right-wing faction controls all.

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How can contemporary Jewish poets adequately respond to the history of our time when it is continually and rapidly revising itself?

I cannot say for sure when Bill Moyers first developed such a...

Today On TAP: When Wall Street gazillionaires take over a city, that city may rise up against them.

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