
Rafi Schwartz, The Week US
Rafi Schwartz has worked as a politics writer at The Week since 2022, where he covers elections, Congress and the White House. He was previously a contributing writer with Mic focusing largely on politics, a senior writer with Splinter News, a staff writer for Fusion's news lab, and the managing editor of Heeb Magazine, a Jewish life and culture publication. Rafi's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GOOD and The Forward, among others. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a major in religious studies, and a minor in integrated liberal studies.
Rafi lives in the Twin Cities, where he does not bike, run or take part in any team sports. He does, however, have a variety of interests, hobbies and passions.
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Is James Talarico’s Texas win a sign of a rising religious left?
TODAY'S BIG QUESTION The state’s latest Democratic senate hopeful has brought an overtly religious message to his progressive campaign. Will other Democrats take note?
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Kash Patel’s Iran agent firings are a catch-22 for the FBI director
TALKING POINTS Reports that Donald Trump’s handpicked FBI director oversaw the firing of multiple Iran experts at the agency highlight the professional tightrope Patel now finds himself walking
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France deploys carrier in Iran war as Spain balks
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Anthropic becomes the face of AI resistance in DOD feud
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Pete Hegseth pushed the artificial intelligence developer for expansive access to its potentially lethal creation. CEO Dario Amodei isn’t apologizing for pushing back.
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Trump sends more troops to Mideast as Iran war spreads
speed read In the 72 hours since the US and Israel began bombing Iran, the war has already engulfed at least 11 countries
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Trump’s jumbled doctrine of global force emerges
TALKING POINTS A hastily launched war of vaguely articulated goalposts in Iran has thrust Trump’s vision of expanded empire into a spotlight for which it might not be ready
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Quentin Deranque: a student’s death energizes the French far right
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Reactions to the violent killing of an ultraconservative activist offer a glimpse at the culture wars roiling France ahead of next year’s elections
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Britain’s ex-Prince Andrew arrested over Epstein ties
Speed Read The younger brother of King Charles III has not yet been charged
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Ex-South Korean leader gets life sentence for insurrection
Speed Read South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison over his declaration of martial law in 2024
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Things Donald Trump has said about women
In Depth The president has a long history of controversial remarks about the opposite sex
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Greenland’s capital becomes ground zero for the country’s diplomatic straits
IN THE SPOTLIGHT A flurry of new consular activity in Nuuk shows how important Greenland has become to Europeans’ anxiety about American imperialism
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Trump’s fuel blockade puts Cuba in crisis mode
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Plummeting tourism, scrambling airlines and rolling blackouts are pushing Cuban society to the brink
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US to send 200 troops to Nigeria to train army
Speed Read Trump has accused the West African government of failing to protect Christians from terrorist attacks
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Minnesota's legal system buckles under Trump's ICE surge
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Mass arrests and chaotic administration have pushed Twin Cities courts to the brink as lawyers and judges alike struggle to keep pace with ICE’s activity
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Trump reclassifies 50,000 federal jobs to ease firings
Speed Read The rule strips longstanding job protections from federal workers
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What happens now that the US-Russia nuclear treaty is expiring?
TODAY’S BIG QUESTION Weapons experts worry that the end of the New START treaty marks the beginning of a 21st-century atomic arms race
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Supreme Court upholds California gerrymander
Speed Read The emergency docket order had no dissents from the court
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Trump demands $1B from Harvard, deepening feud
Speed Read Trump has continually gone after the university during his second term
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ICE’s facial scanning is the tip of the surveillance iceberg
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Federal troops are increasingly turning to high-tech tracking tools that push the boundaries of personal privacy
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Trump's ‘weaponization czar’ demoted at DOJ
Speed Read Ed Martin lost his title as assistant attorney general
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Grok in the crosshairs as EU launches deepfake porn probe
IN THE SPOTLIGHT The European Union has officially begun investigating Elon Musk’s proprietary AI, as regulators zero in on Grok’s porn problem and its impact continent-wide
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Israel retrieves final hostage’s body from Gaza
Speed Read The 24-year-old police officer was killed during the initial Hamas attack
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ comes into confounding focus
In the Spotlight What began as a plan to redevelop the Gaza Strip is quickly emerging as a new lever of global power for a president intent on upending the standing world order
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Trump sues JPMorgan for $5B over ‘debanking’
Speed Read Trump accused the company of closing his accounts for political reasons
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