In Jewish World Review, Jonathan Tobin looks at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book on the Middle East, The Message, and the (mostly) laudatory news coverage it has received. While he’s hailed as a literary genius, Coates’ claim that the experiences of Palestinians are analogous to that of blacks in Jim Crow-era America is wildly misinformed and inaccurate, Tobin explains.

Not Your Grandparents’ Kennedy
The makers of Trix and Lucky Charms recently promised to remove synthetic dyes from their products, notes Kevin Roberts in The American Mind. “Nobody forced them,” he observes. “They read the room.” And the elephant in that room is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a Trump cabinet member and ringmaster of the “Make America Healthy Again” crusade. Kennedy’s Herculean tasks include battling entrenched interests while redirecting a nation that is disproportionately fat, out of shape, chronically ill and drug-dependent.


