Opinion | Serious Leadership Means Standing Together
Serious leadership brings complexity and nuance, and demands more information, not less. Our debates must strengthen democracy, not weaken it.
Jews & the Burden of Southern History
Jews were on both sides of the racist Wilmington Massacre of 1898, the only successful coup in United States history.
Opinion | The Case Of The Praying Coach
Late last term, the Supreme Court decided a case that fundamentally transformed the relationship between church and state.
Costs of Cheap Oil: Biden’s Balancing Act
Journalists abroad are paying the price for the United States' domestic interests.
In the Shadow of the Lynching Memorial
Midsummer, in an aging subcompact rental car, because that was all we could get, my husband and I took a civil rights tour through the Deep South.
Were Birmingham’s Civil Rights Era Jews ‘Inside Agitators’?
Calvin Trillin, an incomparable reporter, brought his wry, Midwestern Jewish perspective to coverage of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, first for Time magazine and then for The New Yorker. He once observed, tongue in cheek, that it must have been awfully crowded in the South back then “behind the scenes.”
Moment Debate | Should the First Amendment Apply to Social Media?
We’re living with an unprecedented threat to free speech, with much of today’s public discourse controlled by a handful of companies with unsurpassed wealth and power—companies whose capitalization values exceed the economies of major developed countries.
Moment Debate | Does Electronic Surveillance Threaten Democracy?
What undermines democracy is the use of electronic surveillance by government without tight limits: judicial oversight, transparent policies and publicly available information after the fact.
Ossoff, Warnock and Georgia’s Black-Jewish Coalitions
When Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock stand together to campaign in Georgia's twin Senate runoffs, they stand on the state's well-established foundation of Black-Jewish cooperation.
The Woman Who Drove Old Dixie Down
Eileen Filler-Corn, Virginia’s first female—and first Jewish—Speaker of the House of Delegates, is playing a key role in dismantling the state’s Confederate legacy, statue by statute.
Debra Katz: Ahead of Her Time
She was the go-to lawyer for whistleblower and sexual discrimination claims long before #MeToo got its name.
Roberta Kaplan Takes White Supremacy to Court
"There’s no such thing as fake news in a courtroom. There are facts—and we’re going to prove the facts."