The last four years saw unprecedented civic participation by and social acceptance of American Muslims
Who will command the emerging new order: conservative nationalists, digital theoreticians, or social-democratic and liberal internationalists?
But being right in Washington has a price
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In the ‘cosmic and frightening’ Sapir Prize-winning The Ruined House, by Israeli expatriate Ruby Namdar, the secular modern world and the ancient divine mysteries coexist
Successive two-term administrations made a mess of the Middle East. Who will clean up?
Two new studies of Islam portray recent outbursts of coordinated violence and oppression not as a reaction to Western liberalism but instead as fundamental to the religion itself
A tech billionaire and former Israeli commando, he taught me how to ask the hard questions we’re supposed to ask this time of year on the Jewish calendar
Ground Zero used to be an abstraction, until I pulled out my iPhone and created my own memory
In the drama’s new alternate PC universe, Hillary is President, domestic terrorism doesn’t exist, Israel is the bad guy in the Middle East, and Carrie Mathison is a mom who defends a teenager who supports ISIS on Facebook
Peering into, and through, the ghostly new Brooklyn
Billy Domineau’s spec script has the ‘Seinfeld’ characters acting as petty as ever
Whoops
But the Obama Administration bets $100 billion that Iran is innocent
What’s needed is more tribalism, not less
A conversation with the noted garbologist about Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Meir Kahane, being a drug dealer, and what’s wrong with NY today
The former host of The Daily Show will head to Washington, D.C., next week to lobby for the permanent extension of legislation that funds medical care programs for survivors
Who else can step up and rescue the faith from the fanatics who’ve hijacked it?
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