An investigation into the leadership, organizational and financial status, and affiliations of the increasingly fractured Women’s March. Among many other explosive issues, the article interrogates the alleged anti-semitism of some of the March’s leaders, who support the outwardly anti-semitic, misogynistic, and anti-LBGTQ Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan.
Sari Botton
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Duet for a Small Porpoise’s Extinction
A personal essay in which Kimi Eisele contemplates coherence, the near extinction of the vaquita, and the expensive bycatch of being human.
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Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess
A feature in which Jamie Lauren Keiles looks at the cultural history of the Jewish American Princess — and her own history of aspiring to be one.
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Writing to Avoid Erasure
After finding a note left by his grandfather, Aram Mrjoian considers how writing about the Armenian diaspora could help prevent history from being forgotten.
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For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery
Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
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Chardon, Ohio
Six years after a mass shooting at the local High School, Libby Copeland visits with survivors and observes various ways they live and cope with lasting trauma.
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The City I Love is Destroying Itself
In an interview illustrated with gifs created by the author, Nicole Antebi talks with historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso from the City itself.
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
A New York Times investigation into the questionable ways Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, and Sheryl Sandberg, its Chief Operating Officer, have worked to contain and distract from the company’s biggest scandals, including reports of Russian Facebook accounts influencing the 2016 presidential election, inappropriate data mining and sharing, and the platform having no actionable policy against […]
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Re: Hate Mail
Upon receiving a deluge of menacing emails, Amy Kurzweil wonders: can she really extend a writer’s empathy to the dangerous demands of men on the internet?
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The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write
Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.