Word Games in Gaza

Word Games in Gaza

On May 29, 2022, I found myself in Jerusalem with a group of U.S. tourists, surrounded by thousands of young Israelis marching in the street with their country’s flag draped over their shoulders and flying in the air above the crowd. They were celebrating Jerusalem...
Kitchen Table Dog Whistles

Kitchen Table Dog Whistles

Few sources are more instructive about the modern Republican Party than the now-infamous interview Lee Atwater gave for Alexander Lamis’ 1988 book, The Two-Party South. Lamis didn’t name his source, but after Atwater died in 1991, The Nation magazine published the...
Resurrecting Dinosaurs

Resurrecting Dinosaurs

My elevator speech when describing my work as editor of Good Faith Magazine often includes the self-deprecating use of the word “dinosaur.” It’s a nod to the reality that we’re producing a very old form of media—one that’s declining rapidly. Perhaps no data set paints...