Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a sturdy electoral bridge between the religious and ...
21 Jun 202113min
Merrick Garland's Impossible Job
Merrick Garland made his legal reputation as a temperate moderate dedicated to keeping politics out of the justice system. Yet in the past few years, he has found himself at the center of two of the m...
17 Jun 202117min
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention
Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention will hold its annual meeting. It’s the largest Protestant denomination in the country, and, as the group gathers to elect a new president, it is facing a cri...
14 Jun 202115min
Naomi Osaka and the Rights of Professional Athletes
Last month, Naomi Osaka, the second-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, announced that she would not speak to the press during the French Open. The referee fined her fifteen thousand dollars, a...
11 Jun 202120min
The Early Days of ACT-UP, and Its Lessons for Today’s Activists
Sarah Schulman is a novelist and playwright as well as a well-known activist and documentarian. She was an early member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and, for twenty years, she and the filmm...
7 Jun 202117min
Biden’s Plan to Reshape the American Economy
A semblance of pre-pandemic life has resumed across the country, but the economic signs are mixed, even after the strong jobs report for May. Supply chains are bottlenecked, unemployment is just under...
4 Jun 202119min
