Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky had her office at New York's Columbia Teachers' College vandalized with Nazi swastikas this week. She also found the Jewish slur "Yid" painted on her office door. Midlarsky, who has applied her training as a clinical psychologist to the field of ...read more
Chuck Schumer was comfortably re-elected as Senate Minority Leader yesterday by the Democratic caucus, but a stunning New York Times exposé of Facebook reveals that he attempted to impede investigations into the tech giant. The story, which runs about 5,000 words and carries ...read more
The deaths of 11 mostly elderly Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this weekend was the culmination of one of the worst weeks I can remember in America. On top of the bombs sent to major Democrats by a psychopathic supporter of Donald Trump, the massacre of ...read more
Since he became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida last month, Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his racism, from his "monkey it up" crack regarding his opponent, African-American Andrew Gillum, on Fox News, to suggesting that immigrants are child molesters. In ...read more
There is a country that ranks 31st globally in life expectancy even though its healthcare costs per capita are by far the highest. This country has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the free world. It loses over a thousand people every week to misuse of ...read more
Before Trump "won" the 2016 election, it was obvious that even if he lost, the Republican Party had irrevocably shifted from the party of dog whistle racism to the party of open white nationalism. After the election, the question wasn't "if" they would start fielding candidates ...read more
These days, a single tweet can start a chain reaction that leads to an army of trolls unleashing harassment both online and sometimes, off it. It’s a bizarre yet hazardous part of our increasingly connected world, especially when the hoards are reacting to what they see as ...read more
One month, 8 days. That's how long it took after electing Trump for Neo-Nazis to feel confident enough to start openly targeting Jews in America. Not online like they've been doing for years, but in the real world. This dangerous escalation is just the beginning: A ...read more
Fighting over the cast and characters of a sci-fi blockbuster sounds silly and childish until you look at what it says about Trump's white nationalist followers and their penchant for embracing violence as a final solution (Nazi reference very much intended and appropriate). In ...read more
When two gunmen murdered 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and another killed four Jews at a kosher market in Paris in January, some commentators immediately identified the real problem with the slaughter: looming "Islamophobia." This pattern is now well-established. An ...read more
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., the man arrested in the shooting deaths of three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas has a long history of public white supremacist rantings, including multiple appearances as a guest ...read more
That's sort of hitting the trifecta. ...read more
This is the guy Fox News and Sean Hannity used to go after Sen. Obama. And this is the guy who has pushed the phony Obama is a Muslim story. This guy. The Chicago man credited with launching the Barack Obama-is-a-Muslim smear campaign once pledged to 'exterminate Jew Power in ...read more
Fox News needed an anti-Obama voice so badly they picked up an anti-semite and pushed him on air. ...read more
Democratic candidate Nikki Tinker does her best Goebbels in this horrific ad versus Rep. Steve Cohen. Crazy. ...read more
