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  Which Democratic Candidate Gets Intersectionality Best? A Ranked List

  The left is fractious. Where the right wing prizes uniformity and compliance, we lefties come from hundreds of perspectives. To get us marching in the same direction takes a compelling force. Hence the adage, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” The 2016 Democratic presidential primary was a fiasco because Bernie Sanders couldn’t wrap…

  By Tae Phoenix

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  Democrats Should Lean In To The Israel Question At The Debates. Here’s How.

  With the first primary debates coming up this week, the large field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are busy preparing to share their policy visions and views on a wide range of issues. When it comes to the US-Israel relationship, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and US foreign policy in the Middle East, some candidates may be…

  By Ben Shnider Jun 26, 2019 | 3 min read
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  All The Holocaust Denials The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Didn’t Comment On

  Earlier this week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issued a press release about the use of the Holocaust to describe present day atrocities. They joined a host of other voices who had condemned Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for calling the U.S. asylum seeker detention centers “concentration camps.” “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally…

  By Lev Golinkin Jun 25, 2019 | 3 min read

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  Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ Is Destroying Israel

  On Saturday, the White House released the economic part of their “deal of the century” to bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians. In putting a call for economic stimulus before a plan to end Israel’s occupation — the cause of our economic strife — it was a classical move of putting the cart before the…

  By Sam Bahour Jun 25, 2019 | 5 min read
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  No Economic Plan Can Compete With Israel’s Occupation

  As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast workshop in Bahrain commences, the Trump administration has published its economic vision for the Palestinian people, a blueprint for how to spend the $68 billion the administration wants to raise from allies in the Persian Gulf. The plan promises to transform the Palestinian economy through better governance, career counseling and training,…

  By Sari Bashi Jun 24, 2019 | 4 min read
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  I’m A Proud Veteran. I’m Even Prouder To Be The Grandson Of An Illegal Immigrant.

  I have achieved accomplishments our society values — an Ivy League education, decorated combat service as an Army officer, and home ownership. I served two deployments to Iraq leading the most impressive young Americans, some as young as 18, during the most brutish years of the Iraqi insurgency. After leaving the Army, I attended Harvard…

  By Steven Katz Jun 24, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Jared Kushner’s Economic ‘Peace’ Plan Is An Embarrassment

  In the fall of 2014, I sat around a table in the State Department with forty representatives of Israeli and Palestinian civil society and the peace team of then Secretary John Kerry. After failing to get his framework agreement released as the proximity talks between the parties had broken down, we were there to ask…

  By Joel Braunold Jun 24, 2019 | 4 min read
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  How I Changed My Mind About Reparations

  Like David Brooks when he wrote this column, I have come to grapple with the issue of reparations for slavery slowly. Like Barack Obama when he ran for President, I have wondered whether focusing instead on fixing the legacy of slavery, by providing good schools and good jobs for African-Americans, would be more effective and…

  By Jane Eisner Jun 21, 2019 | 4 min read
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  How To Honor The Legacy Of The Jewish And Black Activists Murdered 55 Years Ago

  Fifty-five years ago, three young volunteers—one black Christian and two white Jews—working to register voters drove into a Mississippi town to investigate why a black church had just burned to the ground. They never made it home. On June 21, 1964, local police officers arrested James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner outside Philadelphia, Mississippi….

  By Ginna Green Jun 20, 2019 | 4 min read
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  The Last Thing Netanyahu Wants Is A War With Iran

  The US-Iran confrontation in the Persian Gulf is escalating day by day. President Trump’s cautious reservations about the use of American military force in the Middle East—perhaps the only sound strategic pronouncement he has consistently made since before being elected in November 2016—are one factor militating against war. But there are other factors at work…

  By Yossi Alpher Jun 20, 2019 | 3 min read
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  I’m A Latina Jew. My People Are In Concentration Camps Today – Just Like They Were During The Holocaust

  My life is one of those classic American mixed kid stories. My mom is Latina and my dad is Jewish, so I grew up calling myself a “challah-peño.” Though I am Latina, I don’t speak Spanish natively. Many Latinx families from my mother’s generation coped with the pressures of xenophobia by assimilating linguistically. Because of…

  By Tae Phoenix Jun 20, 2019 | 4 min read