Culture

Barack Obama finished naming his Cabinet last week, and as Matthew Yglesias points out here, it doesn’t have any Jewish members. Now, technically, Obama designated five additional positions as Cabinet-level appointees, and that list does include Peter Orszag, who is Jewish, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. But in the traditional Cabinet […]

The Forward reports on the impact of the Agriprocessors raid on San Jose Calderas, a small Guatemalan town. An estimated two-thirds of the undocumented workers at Agriprocessors deported to Guatemala came from San Andres Iztapa, the municipality which includes San Jose Calderas. For more than a decade, Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, acted as this dusty […]