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Gatekeeping the Right: Inside Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Ideological Pivot, by Jose Alberto Nino

Batya Ungar-Sargon once mourned Hillary Clinton’s defeat so deeply that she wrote a 2016 essay for Dame magazine titled “Trump Ruined My Favorite Haunt”—lamenting that she could no longer enjoy a neighborhood bar whose regulars and bartenders had voted for Donald Trump. Fast forward to the present, she now calls herself a “MAGA leftist” and...
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Black Leaders Revolt Against Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Congressional Campaign, by Jose Alberto Nino

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s announcement that she would leave her current congressional seat behind and compete for Florida’s 20th Congressional District has triggered one of the most intense confrontations between black and Jewish political forces in recent years. The district, situated in Broward County and reliably Democratic, has served as a cornerstone of black political power...
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From Evo Morales to Rodrigo Paz: Bolivia's Dramatic Shift Toward Israel, by Jose Alberto Nino

Bolivia is experiencing its deepest political and economic crisis in four decades, and the responses from Washington and Jerusalem have been striking in their similarity. Since early May 2026, a massive wave of protests led by indigenous communities, miners, peasant unions, transport workers, teachers, and supporters of former leftist president Evo Morales has swept the...
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Ezra Klein Warns Israel’s Role in Iran War Will Fuel Antisemitism, by Jose Alberto Nino

For decades, prominent Jewish voices have wrestled privately with an uncomfortable question. Does aggressive Israeli government conduct expose diaspora Jewish communities to backlash they did not invite? In early March, Ezra Klein brought that question back into public view. Speaking with former Obama senior adviser Ben Rhodes on a podcast episode titled “The Great Lie...
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The Strange Case of Ori Solomon, by Jose Alberto Nino

On January 31, 2026, FBI agents and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers executed a search warrant at a residence on Sugar Springs Drive in east Las Vegas, near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. What they found inside triggered one of the strangest criminal cases in recent Nevada history. Authorities discovered what they described as an...
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Stolen Weapons Grade Uranium: Remembering the Apollo Affair, by Jose Alberto Nino

In May 2026, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) led a group of 30 House Democrats in sending a formal letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding the United States end its decades-long policy of nuclear ambiguity regarding Israel. Castro explicitly cited the ongoing U.S. and Israel military conflict with Iran, noting that “fighting this war...
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