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I'm a big proponent of D.C. statehood, in part because I'm a local but mostly as part of a larger commitment to ensuring that all A...

One of my current projects involves exploring the "race card" response to claims of racial injustice. A large part of why that int...

On Twitter, "Independent Journalist" Rania Khalek mocks a Jewish college student as "paranoid" for fretting about ...

The very first entry in the "Things People Blame the Jews For" series was the Fukushima disaster . If I recall correctly, the orig...

When Chris Hughes bought a majority share of The New Republic two years ago, I tolkd folks to "count me as a supporter." This ma...

This is a killer letter in the Baltimore Jewish Times by Amna Farooqi, talking about Jewish organizations' attempts to connect to mille...

Paris Hilton has received some very threatening messages lately . I still am not 100% sure why anyone cares about Paris Hilton at all (havin...

A lawyer friend of mine requested that I blog on Young v. UPS , set for argument before the Supreme Court tomorrow. Young involves a suit b...

Mychal Denzel Smith has an interesting post up on Salon regarding Black folks who get rich chastising "bad" Blacks. Smith contend...

We're back with one of The Debate Link's favorite games , "Rate that Apology!" People sometimes say terrible things on the...

Anytime a legal issue significantly enters the non-legal eye -- whether we're talking about the health care law or the decision whether ...

This past weekend, I attended the "Dominating Speech" workshop at the University of Connecticut. It was, in many respects, my fir...

The series finale of Video Game High School came out this week. I've watched every episode of all three seasons, and enjoyed them all. ...

The Israeli Knesset is moving forward with a bill that would ban the free distribution of the daily Israel Hayom newspaper (the paper woul...

The Montgomery County Public School system -- of which I am a proud graduate -- recently decided to stop including religious labels for days...

Noah Feldman has a Bloomberg column up provcatively titled "Obamacare May Die So Gay Marriage Survives". The idea behind it is th...

Poor Loretta Lynch. Of course Republicans are going to try and sink her. Or people who share her name . Whatever. It's nothing persona...

Though put in the words of a character, I think we can fairly ascribe this as Judge Kopf's prediction regarding how the Supreme Court w...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has an interview with Michael Quinn , the retired police offier who was the main source for Pointergate . It...

Well I was half-right -- the D.C. Circuit did grant en banc review in Halbig (whether or not health care subsidies are available for feder...