The reality is that Jewish Americans worry less about Israel than things like health care, the economy, and the environment.
Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is a Nation Institute writing fellow and the host of Politics and Reality Radio. Follow him on Twitter.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: Zephyr Teachout and Trump’s Vulnerability to State Prosecution
The New York state attorney general candidate discusses the case against Trump and the power of the state AG’s office.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Massive Spending Cuts: The Tax Act’s Hidden Costs
Republicans rediscovered the peril of the enlarged deficit—as a pretext for gutting social spending.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
McConnell Surrenders to The Resistance, For Now
The Kentucky Republican goes down to defeat again, but winning this latest battle doesn’t mean the war over health care has ended.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Dispatches From the Conservative Bubble: GOP Health-Care Edition
How come some Republicans don’t believe that the Ryan and McConnell bills would lead to more deaths? An epistemic blockade, that’s how come.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Clinton Move to the Center? Don’t Bet on It.
Widespread assumptions that Hillary Clinton and her party are poised to shift rightward overlook dramatic changes in the electorate since her husband occupied the White House.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Abuses on the Border
Donald Trump says he plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but civil liberties advocates say the border is already over-policed, with reports of abuses and even fatal shootings in Southwestern communities.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Terrorists Will Never Limit Our Free Speech, But Government Can
“Lone wolf” nutjobs and small bands of extremists can’t threaten our values, but our own institutions can.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Much Did Black-White Wealth Gap Widen During the Great Recession?
A lot, says a new study from the Pew Research Center.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What You Really Need to Know About the Torture Report
The two contractors who designed the program were paid $81 million. And that’s just one thing.