Editorial


King’s Last Crusade

FORWARD EDITORIAL: Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 83 on January 15. He started transforming this country as few had done before him, and he was only getting started.Read More


Marwan Barghouti Speaks, Through Wife

By Jane Eisner

The Palestinians’ most famous prisoner and most popular politician tells the Forward through his wife that he believes in a two-state solution and unity with Hamas is coming soon.Read More


Attack of the Super PACs

FORWARD EDITORIAL: A momentous Supreme Court decision on campaign finance has given rise to a new and potentially destructive player in elections: the Super PAC.Read More


Ghost of Israel’s Future

The Israeli right should take a closer look at the protests in Russia. Israeli citizens may also become fed up with being ignored by leaders intent on perpetuating their own power.Read More


Monitoring the Monitors

The Arab League’s decision to send monitors to Syria comes at a time when we badly need information about the bloody uprising there. But all is not right with this group of observers.Read More


Oh Thank Heaven for 2011

FORWARD EDITORIAL: What a year it was, this two-oh-one-one. Uprisings, protests, regimes on the run. We follow in a great Forward tradition. And thank you for reading our next edition!Read More


Beyond the Protests

By Jane Eisner

Economist Manuel Trajtenberg was picked to plan reforms after Israel’s social justice protests. He’s putting the country through quite a learning experience, writes Jane Eisner.Read More


What Voter Fraud?

FORWARD EDITORIAL: Republicans are enacting new restrictions on voting in the name of preventing ‘fraud.’ Luckily, Attorney General Eric Holder is defending voting rights.Read More


Our Own 1%

FORWARD EDITORIAL: A nearly all-male network runs most of the national Jewish organizations. Even worse, some of them make enough to make the 1% blush.Read More


Watching What We Eat

FORWARD EDITORIAL: The Thanksgiving leftovers are finished or in the freezer, but a central question remains: Did you eat turkey stuffed with dangerous antibiotics?Read More