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Yair Rosenberg
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Staff writer, The Atlantic.
Teller of stories, troller of Nazis.
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That’s because most American ills are of our own making: the result of political choices, trade-offs, and citizen preferences. Many people struggle to find affordable housing because of constraining policies in New York City, California, and other blue strongholds. At this moment, many Americans are facing the loss of their SNAP benefits because of decisions made at the federal level to shut down the government, defund its services, and prevent an emergency fund from offsetting the shortfall. The country doesn’t have Medicare for All because Americans are unwilling to pay the estimated $20 trillion it would cost per decade, not because of the approximately $500 billion we’ve sent to Ukraine and Israel over the course of those countries’ entire existence. Simply put, these situations prevail not because foreign actors defrauded America for the budgetary equivalent of pocket change, but because of policy choices made democratically here at home, for good and for ill. America’s new wave of populist politicians are right to highlight the failings of the country’s elite, both here and abroad. But if they resort to exporting blame for America’s shortfalls in housing, health care, and other areas, rather than taking a hard look within, they will have only quack cures to treat very real ailments.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
That’s because most American ills are of our own making: the result of political choices, trade-offs, and citizen preferences. Many people struggle to find affordable housing because of constraining policies in New York City, California, and other blue strongholds. At this moment, many Americans are facing the loss of their SNAP benefits because of decisions made at the federal level to shut down the government, defund its services, and prevent an emergency fund from offsetting the shortfall. The country doesn’t have Medicare for All because Americans are unwilling to pay the estimated $20 trillion it would cost per decade, not because of the approximately $500 billion we’ve sent to Ukraine and Israel over the course of those countries’ entire existence. Simply put, these situations prevail not because foreign actors defrauded America for the budgetary equivalent of pocket change, but because of policy choices made democratically here at home, for good and for ill. America’s new wave of populist politicians are right to highlight the failings of the country’s elite, both here and abroad. But if they resort to exporting blame for America’s shortfalls in housing, health care, and other areas, rather than taking a hard look within, they will have only quack cures to treat very real ailments.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The ICC one is pretty bad. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Revealed: Qatar-linked intelligence operation targeted ICC prosecutor’s alleged victim
Exclusive: Woman who accused Karim Khan of misconduct was subject of covert operation involving two British private intelligence firms
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Anyway, I laid out how all this was going to happen over a year ago. Wish I'd been wrong. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
yair-rosenberg.bsky.social Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 11d
I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Anyway, I laid out how all this was going to happen over a year ago. Wish I'd been wrong. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
yair-rosenberg.bsky.social Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 11d
I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Repeat guest on Tucker's show, of course. These people are all a means to an end for him.
yair-rosenberg.bsky.social Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 7d
This is refreshing in its unvarnished clarity. No more "Zionists," no more "Frankists," no more euphemisms. Just Jews.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Again, 2024:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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What's really going on with the right and Jews right now: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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What's really going on with the right and Jews right now: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Hmm.. maybe try a different browser?
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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As always:
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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First one is the most recent, from 10/26. So *after* his Hitler stanning and "satanic Jews" comments.
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Important to distinguish them from the episcopalian rabbis.
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM