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Oct 14, 2020, 4:07 PM

Amy Coney Barrett’s supporters count on her beliefs swaying her rulings

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 13, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/ Pool via AP)

Given Judge Barrett’s profound commitment to sectarian doctrine, it is unlikely, regardless of her disclaimers, that she would miss the opportunity of reversing Roe

May 8, 2020, 1:12 PM

The path to victory: Remembering V-E Day

Crowds gathering in celebration at Piccadilly Circus, London during VE Day on May 8, 1945. (Wikipedia)

FDR's prescience, including over the objections of some of his top generals, included maintaining a policy of Germany first, and his foresight made all the difference

Aug 20, 2019, 3:43 PM

Keeping out the huddled masses

Illustrative. The Statue of Liberty, New York City, (iStock)

Blocking immigration for fear of 'invaders' who will take jobs, debase the culture, and 'replace us' is rooted in the racism of eugenics that undermines the very essence of America

Jul 4, 2019, 12:37 PM

Religion shouldn’t have a say in the abortion debate

Illustrative. Protesters for women's rights march past Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to the Alabama Capitol to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Even if doctrine contends that terminating a pregnancy thwarts God’s will, women have the right to choose in a secular democratic society

May 11, 2019, 1:46 AM

What we talk about when we talk about anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Liberals downplay the anti-Semitism of the Left; conservatives do the reverse -- and both are drained and depleted by the time they face the real enemy

Mar 15, 2019, 2:47 AM

A modest proposal (yes, satire)

Office of the President of the United States of America to the Prime Minister of Israel Dear Bibi, I want you to hang tough on all the flak you’ve been getting for telling it like it is -- that “Israel is...

Dec 30, 2018, 2:43 AM

The Pharaoh in the White House

This week’s Torah reading, which begins the Book of Exodus, reminds us that the oppression of the alien in our own times harkens back to the plight of the Israelites in Egypt. The experience of liberation from the hands of...

Nov 30, 2018, 3:10 PM

The wrongfully accused

Illustrative. After a campaign debate, US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., with former opponent Democrat Mike Espy, during their televised Mississippi US Senate debate in Jackson, Missippi. November 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)

Potiphar's wife is not the last to prey on the locals' innate prejudice against strangers to condemn them as predators, parasites, or both

Nov 5, 2018, 1:46 PM

Trump as savior

US President Donald Trump speaks during an election rally in Murphysboro, Illinois on October 27, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Acolytes of the US president care little about what he says -- to them he is a redeemer who will save the nation

Jul 13, 2018, 10:18 AM

Poland’s narrative amounts to Holocaust denial

An inscription reading 'They were flammable' and a Nazi swastika are seen in Jedwabne, Poland, September 1, 2011, on the monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne burned to death by their Polish neighbors in 1941. (AP/Michal Kosc/File)

It was the Poles who held the Jews on the scaffold, while the Nazis tightened the noose

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Jack Schwartz is a former book editor of Newsday.