Benjamin Netanyahu came to New York, addressed the United Nations General Assembly, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, protests followed. Hundreds of people gathered outside the United Nations to protest Netanyahu’s appearance and Israel’s conduct in Gaza. The demonstrations included Jewish, Palestinian and other New Yorkers, along with elected officials, candidates and activists. At one demonstration on Thursday,Continue reading “When Politics Meets Reality: Netanyahu, Mamdani, the NYPD, and Trump”
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Why Iâve Lost Faith in the Democrats â and Why Zohran Mamdani Doesnât Restore It
There was a time when I still held out hope for the Democratic Party. I believed that, maybe, with enough pressure, we could move them left â that through progressive insurgents, we could take the party of Clinton and Pelosi and make it serve working people. But over the years, and especially in light ofContinue reading “Why Iâve Lost Faith in the Democrats â and Why Zohran Mamdani Doesnât Restore It”
Schrödinger’s Reality Crisis
In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to illustrate the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. In it, a cat placed inside a sealed box is simultaneously alive and dead until someone opens the box and observes the outcome. This concept, meant to expose the absurdity of applying quantum superposition to everyday objects, hasContinue reading “Schrödinger’s Reality Crisis”