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The Off-Year Election Variants of Mad Poll Disease

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
In the 2022 elections, the mainstream media’s lodestar was polling that made it seem like voters didn’t want to hear any more about Trump and January 6th. Tuesday’s election returns confirmed a different anti-MAGA reality.

The American Political Sestina

Alexandra Umlas Rattle
Poet Alexandra Umlas uses the subtle form, a sestina, to convey the tenuous substance of American political poetry.

No Endgame in Gaza

Fintan O’Toole New York Review
After weeks of bombardment and thousands of deaths, what are Netanyahu’s political and ethical limits?

A Tribute to Vivian

Samah Salaime +972
I know you will be greeted up above by your Palestinian and Israeli partners in activism, and the thousands of other victims of this pointless war.

Abolition After the George Floyd Rebellion

Jason E. Smith Los Angeles Review of Books
This study, which focuses on the 2020 protests after George Floyd's murder, offers, says reviewer Smith, "the first truly comprehensive account of that summer."