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.”
Politics & Society
Interview with Marianne Williamson
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis interview Marianne Williamson, who is running for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020.
Politics & Society
Anatomy of a Trump Supporter
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Peter Gabel argues that Trump supporters are not voting against their interest “but rather that their interests are different from what the critics think they are.”
Global Capitalism
Worker strikes as liberation — way back then, and today
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Drawing parallels between the Exodus story and current political struggles, Jonathan Rosenblum honors striking workers who are standing up to modern-day Pharaohs.
Justice for All
At the Southern Border – “A Laboratory of Injustice, A Landscape of Hope”
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Rabbi Victor Reinstein reports on a recent trip to El Paso and urges us to “see ourselves in every refugee at the southern border,” affirming their humanity.
Emancipatory Spirituality
A Shoelace in Solidarity With Refugees and Asylum Seekers
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Rabbi Michael Lerner encourages readers to add a shoelace to the Seder place or the Easter dinner table to recall the fate of refugees and asylum seekers.
Racism and Israel’s election: How did the Jewish state become an oppressive state?
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In Israel as in America, leftists blame the “racist” public for the decay of democracy. Rabbi Michael Lerner argues that the truth isn’t so simple.
Politics & Society
South Asia’s Nuclear-Armed Neighbors Pull Back From the Abyss
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Dilip Hiro examines how and why “India and Pakistan have created the most perilous place on Earth.”
Rethinking the Normalization of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era
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Henry Giroux reflects on the resurgence of fascism in the United States and urges us to critically engage the past in order to imagine a radical politics for the future.
Politics & Society
Transcending Trauma
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’s new book Wounds into Wisdom and argues that it helps us recognize “the ways in which we and others are affected by trauma, and what this may mean for healing the world.”
Politics & Society
Spiritualizing Socialism, Part I
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Peter Gabel argues that the new socialism so popular among today’s emerging generation not only rejects capitalism as a system but rejects the idea of systems altogether.
Mourning the Murder of Muslims in New Zealand
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis respond to the recent shooting at two mosques in New Zealand by calling not only for messages of solidarity but also for prevalent campaigns against all forms of hatred.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Machine
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“someone came back / from the edge of the world […] / chanting the word tolerance / over and over, as if / that would change anything.” A new poem from Steven Kleinman.
Graphic Eugene Debs
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews this new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs and argues that the book’s strength lies in how it connects social theory to political activism.