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Agamben, Texas-based, independent journalist writing mostly about life in the zone of sacrifice. Author of Satan's Silence, Sybil Exposed. naess2@gmail.com
Articles by Debbie Nathan
For author Ben Moser, writing about anti-Zionism is an act of sanity
Ben Moser has followed up his Pulitzer-winning biography of Susan Sontag with biographies of 12 anti-Zionists. Photo by Nan Goldin By Debbie Nathan September 18, 2026 Benjamin Moser thinks that Theodore Herzl, the acclaimed founder of political Zionism, was mentally ill and that his delusional ideations underlay his theory of the Jewish state.
Microwave Confidential
Friends who don’t live in New York City often ask me what’s the toughest thing about living here. My go to answer is always: Finding a place to live. I want enough space for all my ridiculous possessions and fabulous frocks. I want my bed to not be part of the kitchen. Though the thought of grabbing a beer out of the fridge while in bed has its appeal. I don’t want my bathtub to double as my kitchen sink. But the number one challenge of finding an apartment in NYC; I have to be able to afford it.
They escaped the Nazi genocide, but these ‘Wanderers’ still went through hell
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The Jewish Journalist at the Flea Market
I started freaking out when I saw the vintage coat. It was Saturday, a sunny and unusually warm day, the first day of spring, and I wanted a break from the endless immigrant rights meetings, the sign-making prep for No Kings 3, the bleak New York Times, Free Free Free Palestine, the strictly correct Guardian, the internet in general. I wanted the buzzy, soothing, wacky, shopping of a good flea market. I went to the one in Chelsea, at 25th and Sixth.
The original anti-Zionists have been all but forgotten. Molly Crabapple wants to change that.
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Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
Bad Bunny performs in the Superbowl halftime show Feb. 8. Photo by Getty Images Since last month, a TikTok has been floating around, showing arthritic Latino grandmas and grandpas hearing Bad Bunny for the first time, courtesy their bemused grandchildren. On the reel, he samples “Un Verano en Nueva York,” a 50-year-old salsa song about New York City — or “Nueva Yol,” as Bad Bunny calls his update in his echt Puerto Rican accent. He sang “Nueva Yol” at the Super Bowl halftime show.
No Lesbians
I first learned about Sara Harb Quiroz in 2021. I was living in El Paso, Texas, and researching America’s deportation of “undesirables.” For much of the twentieth century, immigration laws had been used against gays and lesbians. But in some cases, the banished fought back. I found Sara among them in a brief legal citation online. I wondered if she was still alive. In El Paso, I looked for people who shared her last name and knocked on doors until I obtained her address — in Juárez.
ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him
“We couldn’t even look out the window,” the New York City high school student said of his isolation while detained in a hotel. The case of a 7-year-old detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sparked indignation across New York City. The child, however, is not the first New York youth caught up in President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant dragnet.
ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him
Immigrant Sent Cash To Family In Mexico; ICE Used That To Nab Him Experts say it's the first time they know of that money transfer records have been used to trace someone purely for reentering the U.S. illegally, in …
ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him
The case of a 7-year-old detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sparked indignation across New York City. The child, however, is not the first New York youth caught up in President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant dragnet. The Intercept has confirmed the identity of a 15-year-old Manhattan high school student deported to Ecuador after a secretive detention that involved days trapped inside hotels hundreds of miles away, while unable to contact the outside world.
Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center
A young man locked up in a notorious U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pennsylvania took his life on Tuesday by hanging himself, according to a release from the government and communications between first responders reviewed by The Intercept. His is the first known death in ICE detention facilities in the Northeast this fiscal year.
Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center
NFL Power Rankings: Ranking the worst QB in every division worst to best Who is the worst QB in every division in the NFL? If you don’t have a quarterback in the NFL, you’d better at least have a plan for the future. …
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
Inside a federal immigration courtroom in New York City last month, a judge took an exceedingly unusual step: declining to state the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney pressing to deport asylum seekers. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
3 hours ago Stephen Miller says Americans will live better lives without immigrants. He’s blowing smoke Stephen Miller, the front man for Donald Trump’s deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of undocumented workers.
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
The vanished icon of Atlantic Avenue was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough. By Debbie Nathan and Alyssa Katz This article was originally published on May 19 at 5:01 a.m. EDT by THE CITY About 25 years ago, people passing a drab industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn started noticing a hand-painted billboard that looked both of the place and out of this world.
The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur
About 25 years ago, people passing a drab industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn started noticing a hand-painted billboard that looked both of the place and out of this world. “Attention LANDLORDS,” it said in blocky print, followed by an offer for home heating oil at economical prices. The words were a snooze, but the billboard’s image was a wow.
The church was located in Hell’s Kitchen on 41st Street and 9th Avenue (Carroll Studios). A little guy named Jimmy made it possible for services to happen in a music studio. It brought him consistent cash, besides rehearsal rentals. It was convenient for me. My job with Carrier Travel was at 1040 6th Avenue on 40th Street. The church was at the back of the Port Authority bus station. It was next door to an underground sleazy bar, near where the buses parked before exiting onto the highway.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - March 25, 2025
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 25, 2025 Published March 25, 2025 More Than Just Conservative Midwife Arrested in Texas AAUP Organizes for Academic Freedom Behind the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil Montana: Trans House Members Sock it to GOP The Successful Extortion of a White Shoe Law Firm The (First) Big Boycott of 2025 Privatization on Steroids Here Comes Trump’s Kennedy Center A Sociologist Explains ComicCon Culture More Than Just Conservative By Craig Johnson Rosa Luxemburg...
The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil
March 21, 2025 This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. An immigrant to the United States with a green card walks into his apartment building. Homeland Security agents enter, handcuff him, whisk him into detention hundreds of miles away, and present him with papers for his removal from the country. Then the government makes a public statement: the man hasn’t broken any laws, yet he’s still deportable.
Cruel Compendium #82 š§š¼
Listen to the newest CSBC podcast ep: Design a creative routine that works. I talk about the life-changing magic of creative routines and how to create your own; encourage you to create your art NOW and not later; and actually say the sentence, āI need to be almost sexually attracted to my notebooks.ā Last week, I wrote about Fall Repotting Day, and how Iām planting some new seeds. This Saturday, I did one more home chore Iāve put off for a very long time.
The Curious Case of the Dog and the Abortion Pills
This story is co-published with The Intercept. It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes. Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a back room at the post office where one of the envelopes had been set aside. Steed, a K-9 handler, arrived with Rip, his narcotics sniffer dog.
The Curious Case of the Dog and the Abortion Pills
By Debbie Nathan, Lux It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes. Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a back room at the post office where one of the envelopes had been set aside. Steed, a K-9 handler, arrived with Rip, his narcotics sniffer dog.
Undelivered: Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail
It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes. Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a back room at the post office where one of the envelopes had been set aside. Steed, a K-9 handler, arrived with Rip, his narcotics sniffer dog.
Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail
It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes. Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a back room at the post office where one of the envelopes had been set aside. Steed, a K-9 handler, arrived with Rip, his narcotics sniffer dog.
Daily Immigration News Clips - September 25, 2024
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You Should Stop Calling Them “Migrants”
During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris cracked up when Donald Trump ranted about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, supposedly snatching and eating local residents’ cats and dogs. The vice president rolled her eyes and broke into a “This dude is crazy” chuckle. Trump’s slander was dotty, but it was also chilling. And yet, despite being thoroughly debunked, the Trump campaign, including Ohio’s own JD Vance, continued to latch onto the attacks against Haitians and other immigrants.
You Should Stop Calling Them “Migrants”
You Should Stop Calling Them “Migrants” During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris cracked up when Donald Trump ranted about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, supposedly snatching …
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