My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.
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A Progressive, and Persuasive, Case for a Politics of Persuasion
Anand Giridharadas’s ‘The Persuaders’ profiles activists, organizers, and change-makers charting a path to power through changing minds and ‘calling in.’
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Altercation: Maggie Haberman’s New Book Puts Trump in Context
The surprisingly good ‘Confidence Man’ actually makes sense of Trump’s rise and his ability to twist the media to his will.
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Confronting Latino Anti-Black Bias
Civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández takes up a sensitive but critical subject.
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The Possible World After Globalism
If we can dethrone the reign of Big Finance and Big Tech, what new worlds can we imagine?
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Altercation: Politico Lambastes Washington’s Insider Culture
Nina Totenberg’s new book is roasted by the unlikeliest publication imaginable.
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Altercation: How the Democrats’ Economics Changed
Michael Tomasky on how a dissident, if realistic, assessment of the economy became mainstream
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How to Turn Out Young Voters in November
Today on TAP: Banging pro-choice drums has a distinctly positive effect, but Democrats have to address the economy, too.
