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The Enemy Among Us
The most consequential assault on a society’s principles might wear those principles as its uniform. By Jonathan S. Greenwald Originally published by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) U.S. flag. Credit: Tumisu/Pixabay In politics, the danger is not the outsider, the immigrant, the believer or the dissenter. A free society depends on their equal rights. The danger is an ideology that invokes liberty to extinguish liberty, tolerance to excuse intolerance and human rights to deny the
Jonathan S. Greenwald
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Between Two Anniversaries
On the 25th anniversary of September 11 and as America has recently celebrated its 250th birthday, a reflection on the unity that followed 9/11, the divisions that have grown since, and the question of what America has learned.
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Sep 101 min read


McCarran-Walter Act: The Little-Known Law of 1952
A little-known 1952 immigration law raises a question that remains strikingly relevant today: how should America respond when foreign ideologies threaten the nation from within?
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Sep 11 min read


Thank you, Mayor Mamdani, for uniting the Jews
How Mayor Mamdani’s rise has unexpectedly galvanized Jewish unity and why American Jews can no longer afford complacency.
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Jun 31 min read


Why America should restore ‘The Pledge of Allegiance’
The men and women we honor on Memorial Day did not sacrifice their lives for a political party or ideology. They fought for something greater: the enduring idea of America itself and the shared identity that can unite us across our differences.
Jonathan S. Greenwald
May 261 min read


Time Is Not a Refugee
Iran and the dangerous illusion that time will resolve growing threats and the lessons history teaches about confronting them before it is too late.
Jonathan S. Greenwald
Apr 221 min read
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