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How Israel Lost Americans

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times
It's not just Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans’ good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel’s role in American politics.

The Consent of the Governed Has Been Withdrawn

G. Elliott Morris Strength in Numbers
One year into his second term, Trump has suffered the largest approval collapse of any modern president (except the one who resigned in disgrace). He is underwater on every major policy area.

Most Americans Condemn ICE’s Murder of Renee Good

Carl Beijer Jacobin
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.

The Beinart Notebook: There Is No Ceasefire

Peter Beinart, Muhammad Shehada YouTube
Peter Beinart interviews Muhammad Shehada on the Trump plan: Israel’s plans for the more than half of Gaza, Palestinian public opinion of Hamas, Potential role of international peacekeepers, Emerging rival criminal gangs in Gaza

Friday Nite Videos | October 24, 2025

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Over Half of Democrats Have ‘Positive View of Socialism.’ We Asked Trump Voters About Grocery Prices. Could Cleverly Sliced Paper Revolutionize Human Waste? A House of Dynamite | Movie Trailer. Concerned New Yorker Rhonda LaCenzo on Zohran Mamdani.

A Chorus of Defiance

David Cortright Boston Review
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance

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The Problems With Polls

Samuel Earle The New York Review of Books
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
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