Kind: Reads

Ever since Israel’s founding in 1948, supporting the country’s security and its economic development and cementing its diplomatic ties to the U.S. have been the “religion” of many nonobservant American Jews — rather than studying Torah or keeping kosher. That mission drove fund-raising and forged solidarity among Jewish communities across America. Now, a lot of American Jews are going to need to find a new focus for their passion.

(And why it’s not going well.)

I give it six months before bankruptcy

The right-wing media despises its own supporters. That's dangerous for all of us.

On the Book of Esther, retributive violence, and the recurrence of those who seek to destroy those who won’t obey them

The tech industry–its products, conceptual frameworks, linguistic conventions, and cultural norms–is largely centered in the US (and, increasingly, China. But we’re focused here on the US, where Signal is based). This is not because the US has better programmers or more visionary entrepreneurs, b...

The words of CPAC.

Thorleifsson, to put it mildly, is a rather remarkable and inspiring person.

There’s a saying that you never want to be the main character of Twitter. If you are, it usually means you’ve humiliated yourself in a particularly embarrassing way. The exception to this rule is Elon Musk, who seems to thrive on attention, positive or negative. As has been widely reported, Musk...

To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons.

Disability Dongle by Liz Jackson

Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design problem. Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry. By labeling these material-discursive phenomena—the designed artifacts and the discourse through which their meaning is constituted—we work to shift the focus from their misguided concern about our bodies to their under-analyzed intentions and ambitions.

Should trial judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions? A lawsuit over abortion drugs is the latest major case to raise the question.

Far-Right Author Roasted After Trying To Lecture The Pope About How Christianity Works by Peter Karleby

Oh, that is rich.

A small cross-disciplinary team of engineers worked together to add a feature so journalists at The Washington Post could link their Mastodon profiles from The Post’s website and verify themselves on…

Error message: "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint."

As Jews around the world commemorate the rescue of Persian Jewry, how do those who live where the story took place mark the day?

CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can’t decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves

History has vital lessons when it comes to brazen attacks on trans identity and people.

The high cost of cutting expenses