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Walter Estever Gonzalez

Jun 11, 2026, 4:32 AM

Before We Understood What a Grenade Was

A childhood memory from San Jorge, El Salvador, during the Salvadoran Civil War.

There are memories that remain suspended between childhood and catastrophe. At the time they happen, they do not feel historical. They do not announce themselves as trauma. They arrive disguised as confusion, as heat, as adults behaving strangely while...

Jun 9, 2026, 6:16 AM

How to Vet Dates and Politicians

My friend was going through a break-up. We sat on the grass outside her home as I tried to convince her to hate her ex. I had been seeing New Guy. It’s hard to tell a friend to hate...

Jun 4, 2026, 9:44 AM

Anti-Zionism is a confession

Tell me where a politician stands on Israel and I can tell you the rest. Pedro Sánchez is only the latest to confess

Jun 2, 2026, 6:42 AM

Admitting Your Candidate is Toxic is Step One

Last week, I sat at happy hour with one of my best friends. For the purposes of this article, I’ll call them Bay Gay. They’re a gay from the Bay Area. The Mexican bartender may have mistaken my speaking...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 31, 2026, 11:27 AM

Sánchez: The Head of Spain’s Corruption Snake

On May 27, 2026, agents from the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard stormed the national headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in Madrid. They were searching for records tied to illegal financing, bribery, and an alleged...

David Rosenthal

May 30, 2026, 10:17 AM

Colombia Decides

Colombia heads to the polls on May 31, exhausted and polarized. But for Colombian Jews, this election has a dimension that goes beyond the general sense of weariness. What is at stake on Sunday is not just the economic...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

May 28, 2026, 2:01 PM

Where Was God When He Asked for Water

A mother hides her children during the Salvadoran civil war.

There are nights that never end. They do not remain in the past. They return quietly, without warning, and sit beside you as if they had never left. One of those nights still lives in me. During the Salvadoran civil war, when...

Steven Bernstein

May 23, 2026, 5:37 PM

Trump’s Aladdin’s Lamp: Cuba’s Role in Breaking the Iran Deadlock

Donald Trump built his brand on dealmaking. So why, after bombing Iran for forty days, does a lasting agreement still feel out of reach? The bombs worked — up to a point. American and Israeli strikes degraded Iran's military capabilities...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 20, 2026, 3:49 PM

Trump Must Play the Falklands Card on Iran

The South Atlantic is no frozen backwater. It straddles vital sea lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific, commands access to Antarctic resources valued in the trillions in oil, gas, and minerals, and offers a potential forward base to counter...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

May 18, 2026, 5:08 AM

Before I Knew the Name

Childhood in El Salvador during the civil war.

There are things the body recognizes before the mind has a language for them. When I was a child in El Salvador, I attended a small church with my mother. It was not a Jewish place. It did not call...

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