India Is Transforming. But Into What?
India is known as a country of paradoxes, and a new one has recently emerged. At the same time that the country is poised to become a major global player — with a booming economy and a population that...
12 Dec 20231h
A Different Path Israel Could Have Taken — and Maybe Still Can
Before Oct. 7, Israel appeared to many to be sliding into a “one-state reality,” where it had functional control over Gaza and the West Bank, but the Palestinians who lived there were denied full righ...
8 Dec 202359min
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’
Here are two thoughts I believe need to be held at once: Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7 was heinous, murderous and unforgivable, and that makes it more, not less, important to try to understand what Hamas i...
5 Dec 20231h 3min
A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of ChatGPT. A lot has happened since. OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, recently dominated headlines again after the nonprofit board of directors f...
1 Dec 20231h 10min
Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent.
Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles, sift through text messages and emails, scroll through our social-media feeds — and that’s usually before we e...
28 Nov 20231h 10min
The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts
It is too early to talk about a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. With the trauma of Oct. 7 still fresh for the Israeli public and with the ongoing devastation in Gaza, any talk of confl...
21 Nov 20231h 9min
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now
This is a conversation about the relationship between Jewishness and the Jewish State. About believing some aspects of Israel have become indefensible and also believing that Israel itself must be def...
17 Nov 202356min
Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?
A New York Times and Siena College poll released Nov. 5 showed Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five of the six key swing states, with a notable jump in support among nonwhite and young voters. In re...
14 Nov 20231h 5min
