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Excited to announce that my new book, Dirty Work, will be out on August 17. It examines the morally troubling jobs that are done in our name and the hidden class of workers who do them. You can read more about it, and pre-order a copy, here: us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…

Despite its populist trappings, Trump’s push to end taxes on tips won’t help low-paid tipped workers. In this week’s ⁦@NewYorker⁩, I report on the industry lobby that has prevented a policy that could help them —raising wages — from gaining traction. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…

A powerful, sobering look at the forces that have pulled multiracial voters away from the Democratic Party. The most important, by far, has been the party’s failure to address the economic vulnerabilities of these voters. nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTOpinion

Two months ago Odeh Hadalin came to the US at the invitation of Jewish groups—he was detained at SFO and deported without explanation. Today, he was murdered by a settler Trump let off US sanctions list. This is what their policy protects. haaretz.com/us-news/2025-0…

@EyalPress just dropped a powerful piece in @NewYorker on the fight for fair wages & worker power. He came to Colorado, met with organizers, and spoke with our labor analyst Sophie Mariam to dig into what’s really happening. A must-read. 🔗 ow.ly/FtW750WwqxV

Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage. Puffin Foundation fellow @EyalPress for @NewYorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Beautiful piece by Vinson Cunningham. “He was great at playing Theo, perhaps because he was genuinely a Theo at heart.” newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Who does the dirty work in America’s industrial slaughterhouses? The people ICE is now rounding up and deporting, upending lives, businesses and communities. “There are some jobs Americans don’t want to do.” nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/… via @NYTimes

Sasha Abramsky visits a former KGB interrogation cell in Estonia, where an authoritarian regime ‘normalized the grotesque,’ and reflects on how another authoritarian regime is repeating the pattern, in America. thenation.com/article/societ…

“Children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death," reports @unicef. And the U.S. is complicit. We can debate the terminology to apply, but it is unconscionable that in 2025 the United States and most of the international community are averting their eyes from this.

Every world leader needs to ask themselves if they are ready to be complicit in a famine on their watch. If they are not, they must act decisively now, using every possible political and diplomatic tool, to pressure Israel to lift this unlawful and murderous blockade. /end

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Echoes of the Biden administration. Every few weeks the White House rediscovers that Netanyahu often does things America dislikes because of his own self-interested political reasons, vents about it, and then promptly forgets about it axios.com/2025/07/20/isr…

Under Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the Department of Labor appears to be as pro-business — and anti-worker — as it was in Trump’s first term. latimes.com/business/story…

Like his boss, Vance is a shameless human who insists that others should feel what he cannot.

With support from #PressForward, Type Investigations will be able to expand our Springboard project, which provides local newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities with the resources to build their investigative capacity. typeinvestigations.org/2025/07/16/typ…

“I cannot justify, I cannot defend what we are doing in Gaza.” Former Shin Bet commander Ami Ayalon tells me why Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli governing coalition wouldn’t survive a debate over ‘the day after’ the Gaza war.

Israel's recently unveiled plan – to force 600,000 displaced Gazans into a "humanitarian city" to be established where Rafah once stood – raises critical, chilling questions about the Netanyahu government's intentions for Gaza | @dahliasc haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

[1] 16 IL Int Law Scholars, among them, Prof Benvenisti who was part of the IL defence team in the ICJ, warned that if @Israel_katz's plan for the concentration of the pop in southern Gaza materializes, it might be a conduct which falls under the prohibition of genocide. 🧵

"The bigger question is why Trump – like Joe Biden before him – is allowing this to continue. Biden spent months upon months on futile negotiations with Netanyahu... now, Netanyahu is playing the same game with Trump and his foreign policy team." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…