Michaela Caplan reflects on recent Never Again protests and denounces the “manipulation of Jewish trauma for nationalist ends.”
Politics & Society
A guide for how Progressives can Transform July 4th into Interdependence Day
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Rabbi Michael Lerner urges us not to celebrate the militaristic version of American exceptionalism but instead renew our commitment to the wellbeing of everyone on the planet and the planet itself.
Jewish Wisdom
Why Peter Schäfer’s Resignation as Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Matters
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Shaul Magid warns of the dangers of “policing boundaries whereby distinctions between anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism, between Jews and Israel, are erased.”
Politics & Society
Please Read The Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
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Please take the time to read the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget, and compare it with what any candidate for office seeking your vote is supporting.
Ecological Transformation
What It Means to be “Great” on a Planet Going Down
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David Bromwich tells us that if we fully understood the dimensions of the coming environmental disaster, every news program would start with at least the first item being the latest environmental news.
Global Capitalism
Democratic Socialism, Then and Now
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In this historical overview of democratic socialism, Gary Dorrien claims that “[e]conomic democracy is the heart of democratic socialism and the test of its ambition for social justice.”
Politics & Society
Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Donald Trump
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Henry Giroux argues that our culture of ignorance has made possible the rise of a terrible new political blend: Neoliberal fascism.
Global Capitalism
How did the Venezuelan economy get so messed up?
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Laura Wells explains how the Venezuelan economy got so messed up, and advises us on what to do to help Venezuela better handle their economic crisis.
Emancipatory Spirituality
A Cry from the Heart: A Response from Beyond
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Cat Zavis responds to our world-in-crisis: “The way to manifest your sacredness is to embody sacredness – to treat all life as sacred.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coopting the Beatles
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Peter Gabel argues that, in coopting songs from the 1960s, advertisers not only increase their profits but also strip the songs of their transcendental sense of meaning and purpose.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Voice We Need Now: Whitman at 200
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Herbert Levine remembers Walt Whitman on the 200th anniversary of his birth: his “democratic wisdom is as relevant today as when it was written.”
Justice for All
From a Constituent of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Anti-Semitism
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August Nimtz warns of the dangers—for Jewish people and progressives alike—of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic dual loyalty trope.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Mystical Activism: Transforming a World in Crisis
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John C. Robinson argues that the solution to our many crises lies in the human psyche and, more specifically, in “the right-brain’s natural mystical consciousness.”
Politics & Society
Why did both Obama and Trump sanction Venezuela?
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Laura Wells urges us to pressure politicians on both sides of the aisle to not “judge what other countries do as right or wrong by standards our own country doesn’t even follow.”
Justice for All
Declaring My Gender Liberation
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Warren J. Blumenfeld travels a journey out of yet another closet: “My pronouns are Warren, Warren, and Warren in the first, second, and third person.”