JD Vance's chief of staff is a Jewish guy from New Jersey who once interned for Hillary Clinton — and Asaf Elia-Shalev talked to his childhood rabbi jta.org/2024/07/30/uni…

A homepage that The Wall Street Journal has been waiting 491 days for

My exclusive today for The Sacramento Bee. A prescribed burn planned by Chico could have thwarted the Park Fire, but it never got done. Short thread.. sacbee.com/news/californi…

Same writer and outlet that published the Gaza hostage rescue story a couple months ago just put out this story on the Haniyeh assassination. Then as now, zero attribution to any sources anonymous or otherwise.

NEW: Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis on Holocaust education -- and we read it. jta.org/2024/08/06/pol…

But when can I hit that preorder button?! Congratulations, Maurice!

A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore 🧵

It's official: Canada revokes the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund — and another Jewish nonprofit that directs donations to Israel, the Ne'eman Foundation jta.org/2024/08/12/isr…

really well done and deep (if overly reverent) profile of Palmer Luckey, who I think has become a more consequential figure in American politics and culture than anyone expected tabletmag.com/feature/americ…

Over the 2010s, ideas crystallized that real social change would come only from mass protest and collective pressure. Individual action became seen at best as unproductive—at worst, a harmful distraction. I wrote an essay about why I've changed my mind: vox.com/culture/368201…

This is tonight! eventbrite.com/e/joshua-leife…

Kraft Heinz is spending millions of dollars trying to climate-proof its ketchup, by developing tomato varieties that can thrive in California amid rising temperatures: mercurynews.com/2024/08/27/rec…

Thought provoking piece. I especially appreciate the reckoning with how an ethos emphasizing collective action and discounting individual responsibility has not, for many people, resulted in more social connections.

HEY Y'ALL Votebeat HAS FREE STUFF FOR REPORTERS COVERING VOTING THIS SEASON. Most excitingly: A Slack channel open to journalists in local and non-profit newsrooms with *literally dozens* of experts who can answer instant questions on the record. accounts.muckrock.com/election-hub/r…

NEW: BIG LOCAL PLAY — Media leaders, philanthropists raise $15M for local news initiative in L.A. — Big names involved, including Kevin Merida Evan Spiegel — Funders & board working w American Journalism Project to fund new newsrooms and support existing More on Axios axios.com/2024/09/10/los…

Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement