It is difficult to think about Cohn without going immediately to Trump. It would be incorrect, though, to see them as peas in a pod. Yes, everything from Trump’s bloody rhetoric to his libertine approach to sex to his cavalier attitude toward court orders echoes Cohn’s Way. ...
The extreme rhetoric coming from Carlson and company cannot be dismissed as standard politics. ...
A tour into the new landscape of podcast-comedians—where even antisemitism jokes kill. ...
Two Jewish comedian-podcasters bump into a war. Their hard-core fans demand some jokes about it. After all, aren’t comics supposed
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There is a reason historians insist on the singular nature of the Shoah. ...
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history. ...
For more than four decades after he was suddenly and unceremoniously removed from participation in the 100-meter relay race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Marty Glickman—then a young athlete, later a beloved voice of New York sports radio—vaguely and quietly chalked up the greatest disappointment of his life ...
The pressure was building, and Donald Trump didn’t like it one bit. It was the spring of 2017, and the still-new president was growing ever angrier. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump blurted out in frustration. ...
Trump has long resisted attempts to trace the roots of his character, but he does concede that he was very much shaped by his childhood. ...
David Brooks, that rare New York Times columnist equally criticized by liberals and conservatives alike, was born in Toronto, Canada. His father’s college teaching jobs brought the family to New York City and Philadelphia before Brooks headed off to college at the University of Chicago, where he caught the attention ...
In 1964, The Jews of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and other southern towns didn’t always welcome their northern cousins or join the front lines of the civil rights movement... ...
Marc Fisher reviews FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. ...