Yair Rosenberg
Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received recognition from the Religion News Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. DeSantis Is Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did in 2020
Twitter is real life for the people who are on it, but most people are not. Politicians ignore this at their peril.
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Shahar Azran / Getty The Israeli Minister Who Is Defending Elon Musk
Amichai Chikli championed the billionaire when his tweets were criticized for anti-Semitic overtones. I asked Chikli why.
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Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz / Bloomberg / Getty Elon Musk Among the Anti-Semites
Criticizing George Soros is not inherently anti-Semitic. But casting him as an avatar of evil is.
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Ian Waldie / Bloomberg / Getty No Refuge From Free Wi-Fi
Flights were one of the last unconnected spaces.
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Nic Antaya / The Boston Globe / Getty The Ice-Cream Theory of Joe Biden’s Success
It’s hard to get excited about vanilla, but it’s even harder to get angry about it.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Preemptive Republican Surrender to Trump
In the 2016 primary, Trump defeated a divided GOP opposition. It’s happening again.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Harry Potter Was Always Meant to Be Television
A long story with a locked-in ending is ideal for the smaller screen.
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Jack Guez / AFP / Getty The Three Biggest Misconceptions About Israel’s Upheaval
And how to better understand the protests there
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Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Netanyahu Flinched
The Israeli prime minister and his radical allies pushed the country to the brink—and inspired the greatest mass movement in its history.
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Joan Marcus / DKC / O&M Co. A ‘Parade’ of Anti-Semites on Broadway
Anti-Jewish bigots steal the show in the revived musical. And that’s why it works.
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The Atlantic; Blobfish Why Are 1 Million People Playing Brotato?
An odd new group of games is challenging the conventions of its industry.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty How to Take Back Control of What You Read on the Internet
Social-media algorithms show us what they want us to see, not what we want to see. But there is an alternative.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Invisible Victims of American Anti-Semitism
If a hateful act doesn’t fit a preset political narrative, the public rarely notices it.
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Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty Republicans Keep Underestimating Joe Biden
And that’s good for the president.
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Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency / Getty From This Hill, You Can See the Next Intifada
What happens when Israel’s lawbreakers become lawmakers
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Getty The Israeli Government Goes Extreme Right
The country’s longest-serving prime minister is returning to power—and bringing radicalism with him.
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Getty; The Atlantic Chappelle Was Right
It really is getting harder to joke about anti-Semitism—just not for the reasons he thinks.
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The Atlantic Elon Musk Is No Aberration
The proud new owner of the internet’s dumpster fire isn’t to blame for its issues—yet.
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Edward Berthelot / GC Images / Getty Kanye West Destroys Himself
By embracing anti-Semitism, he has become the author of his own demise.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Not to Talk About the Holocaust
A simple guide to discussing Jewish genocide
