Across Israel and the occupied territories, Israelis and Palestinians are expressing conflicted feelings of joy, despair, relief, and anxiety. The world has witnessed happy scenes of families reuniting, as the 20 remaining living hostages that Hamas took on October 7, 2023, were returned to Israel, and more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners were released. The ceasefire […]

After the euphoria and relief of Monday’s prisoner exchange and ceasefire, Tuesday has brought some ominous portents for the future of the Gaza peace deal. For one thing, the shooting hasn’t stopped entirely. Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday morning in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood. According to the Israel Defense Forces, […]

When it comes to content to watch, kids have a lot of options these days. There are still the classics, like Sesame Street, but also a new kids media titan: YouTube. So how can a parent make sense of all this different content? And what’s the best way for young kids to engage with it? […]

The president of the United States is deploying masked troops to the streets of blue cities, working to put friendly billionaires in charge of the media environment, and attempting to jail his personal enemies. Can any democracy come back from this? Earlier this year, two teams of researchers published papers trying to answer this exact […]

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is among the most successful laws in US history. And it is one of the most morally righteous things the United States of America has ever done. The law was America’s first serious attempt since Reconstruction to build a multiracial democracy, and it succeeded beyond even the most radical […]