Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
-
News A Sickening Plan To Fix Healthcare
Two historic programs to provide medical care to senior citizens and to people who are in need of medical attention but cannot afford it are presently under fire. If the White House has its way, both these programs will be badly crippled. Here’s how: The attack on Medicare is cynically presented as a benefit. It…
-
News At Home and Abroad, Bush Has Some Explaining To Do
President Bush is involved in a two-front war. One is being fought on the international front and the other upon the domestic front. The former is the war against Iraq; the latter is the war against a threatening “depression” devil. And he is losing both. Who says so? It’s not The New York Times and…
-
Culture Bush and the Budget: Life in the Balance
Are federal budget deficits good or bad? It all depends. This question is evoked by what is happening in Washington right now, i.e., the federal deficit is growing by the billions. When President Clinton left office, the budget was pretty much in balance. Indeed, it was one of the few moments in the long history…
-
News Mr. Bush, Don’t Tear Down That Wall
By executive decree, President Bush has decided that “faith-based” institutions, such as churches, synagogues and mosques, are entitled to receive government money for charitable purposes. This is a history-making move. Over the more than two centuries that the United States government has existed, no such policy has ever been approved. Bush’s move shatters all precedent….
-
News An Unexamined War Is Not Worth Waging
As Uncle Sam is daily readying for a war against Iraq and, perhaps, North Korea, the big question is: Do they have nukes and other weapons of “mass destruction”? If they have them, do we, the United States, alone or in collaboration with others who think and feel as we do, have the right to…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
- 2
News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
- 3
Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
- 4
Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish שמועס: דאָס אויפֿוואַקסן חסידיש אין וויןDiscussion: Growing up Hasidic in Vienna
איידל מלובֿיצקי איז געבוירן און דערצויגן געוואָרן בײַ אַ חסידישער סלאָנימער משפּחה אין ווין, עסטרײַך.
-
Fast Forward Can Mamdani stop NYC’s Jewish comptroller from purchasing millions in Israel Bonds for the city?
-
Yiddish World Why the Forward has launched a Yiddish podcast
-
News Why New York’s Sephardic Jews are more Zionist — and more wary of Mamdani — than their Ashkenazi neighbors
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
