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2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Eyal Press

“The cops are pissed off, the people are pissed off, everybody’s just mad,” one protester tells Emily Witt, who reports from the scene in Los Angeles. But, first, Eyal Press with the remarkable story of a Palestinian doctor living in Israel who is committed to helping people on both sides of the conflict. Plus:• The mother of the sitcom• What “Andor” says about militarization and resistanceQasem Hassan, near her home, in Tamra, Israel.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Eyal Press

In October, 2023, a few days after Hamas’s attack on Israel, a physician named Lina Qasem Hassan filled her car with medical supplies and drove from her home, in Tamra, a town in northern Israel, to the David Dead Sea Resort and Spa, in Ein Bokek. Tourism was about to nosedive throughout the country, but the resort was busy, scrambling to accommodate hundreds of evacuees who had just arrived from Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the communities near the Gaza Strip which Hamas had struck.

4 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Eyal Press

Earlier this year, a member of the Federalist Society posted an article raising the alarm about an ambitious proposal to reshape federal labor law. The proposal, titled “A Pro-Worker Framework for the 119th U.S. Congress,” calls for introducing civil penalties to deter employers from engaging in unfair labor practices. It advocates banning so-called captive-audience meetings—gatherings that employees are forced to attend—that companies have used to spread anti-union messages.

Feb 10, 2025 | newyorker.com | Eyal Press

Shortly before midnight on February 4th, a flyer began to circulate on social media, urging union members and their allies in Washington, D.C., to make their way to a protest at 200 Constitution Avenue NW—the headquarters of the Department of Labor—the following afternoon. “FIGHT FOR WORKING PEOPLE: KEEP DOGE OUT OF DOL!” it proclaimed.

Nov 15, 2024 | newyorker.com | Eyal Press

In July, 2016, at the Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia, Senator Chuck Schumer was asked whether he thought that, in the coming election, the anxiety about wages and jobs among working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania might benefit Donald Trump. Schumer dismissed the concern.