This Friday, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Purim – the most joyous day of our ancient calendar. Oddly enough, this year’s festival sends messages with special relevance to the fraught, anxious American moment we...
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For those elements of the GOP who hope to push their party in a more populist direction, there’s already a platform preamble that’s ready to go. “We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material...
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Does profound contempt for Donald Trump signify similar disdain for all 74 million Americans who backed his bid for reelection? Many of the former president’s most fervent admirers believe that it does. In the throes of a second...
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As pundits ponder the looming prospect of a “Republican Civil War,” they instinctively draw dire analogies with the cataclysmic conflict between Union and Confederacy some 160 years ago. But to gain a more illuminating...
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What’s the real point of this after-the-buzzer impeachment play? The normal justification for putting a president on trial and removing him from office is to defend the nation from a dangerous miscreant with potent power. But Trump’s...
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It may be too late to alter the designation, but politicos and pundits make a major mistake when they refer to the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot as an “insurrection.” That title for a brutal, nihilistic spasm of disorganized and...
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Every significant lie comes with a significant cost: usually to the liar (who’s often exposed and disgraced) and always to anyone who hears and believes the lie (and whose view of the world is dangerously distorted). Consider two...
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The gut-wrenching spectacle of flag-waving mobs storming the Capitol building on January 6th represented more than the dangerous delusions of a few thousand radicals. Tens of millions of decent, patriotic Americans share the rioters’...
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Top 10 Movies of 2020: 1- News of the World 2- The Personal History of David Copperfield 3- Blessed Child 4- Boys State 5- Fatima 6- Nomadland 7- Soul 8- Greyhound 9- On the Rocks 10- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Honorable...
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If Donald Trump persists in present plans to mount a vengeful comeback campaign in 2024, he’ll find his name forever linked with one of his less-celebrated predecessors: Grover Cleveland, the only president to manage the unique...
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The holiday of Hanukkah (which concludes this year before dark Friday night) looms in the popular imagination as a quirky sort of “Jewish Christmas,” an overlapping occasion for gift-giving, gluttony and—pandemics...
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– By Diane Medved – I never had the privilege of meeting him, though he shared a podium with my husband several times. And yet, like the hundreds of thousands of people who saw his 2017 TED talk, read any of his more...
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