Excellent reporting by Zack Beauchamp.

How death threats get Republicans to fall in line behind Trump vox.com/23899688/2024-… via Vox

Imagine if the precise targeting, use of intelligence & proportionate use of force in the al-Arouri assassination in Beirut were dominant features of the IDF's operation in Gaza. Thousands, including many of my family, would still be alive & Hamas may have actually been weakened.

I'm happy to announce that I'm joining The New Republic next week to write reported pieces and host TNR's new daily podcast. TNR has been doing some of the most vital reported opinion and long form journalism in the country. I'm excited to be part of it at such a critical moment!

'Just say 'Jewish', Saira, this is taking forever'.

“They say ‘it’s never been this bad before.’ Well, on the one hand, it has,” Dr. Joanne Freeman (@[email protected]) tells me.

“On the other hand ... I’m talking about the lead-up to the Civil War.” vox.com/23899688/2024-…

Most Americans do not understand how the rising threat of actual violence is changing the way our elected officials behave vox.com/23899688/2024-…

Baltimore has to be the prohibitive Super Bowl favorite at this point

The Cowboys just took a whole damn year off my life

A year ago today, Netanyahu's government was sworn into office. How did it manage to make so much damage in so little time? Three factors stand out: populism, polarization and the personalization of politics. My long-ish read on Israel's annus horribilis:
vox.com/world-politics…

If you are so anti-Israel that you hate Israeli Jews who put their own bodies on the line to protest state violence, maybe your problem is less with Israeli policy than with Jews

“Oh, you’re willing to go to jail for your beliefs? I’m ready to post for mine.”

These are cartoonish, broken-brained people

well, you see, he's Jewish and they're anti-semites, it's not that complex.