The Debate Link

The controversy over Ethnic Studies in California continues apace, as the Castro Valley school district (in the East Bay) voted to sign a co...

One of the recurrent themes of the "anti-CRT" push by conservative politicians and activists is that they are merely upholding the...

Like most Jews, I imagine, I'm still in a semi-state of shock about what happened in Colleyville, Texas yesterday. Part of that shock is...

Death may be an inevitability, but the current Republican Party ethos appears to be to do everything in its power to speed the process along...

Last May, in a spate of foolish optimism, I retired my "should I PlagueWatch it" series . Now we're smack in the middle of the...

Today, the Supreme Court invalidated the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine-or-test COVID mandate for large busines...

Am I the only one who's surprised by the intensity with which the ADL has been going after Facebook recently? I want to be clear: For pu...

It is a common cliché to claim that 21st century American antisemitism will follow the trajectory of 21st century Europe's, lagging only...

This is a topic careening around my corner of the internet, and I've almost blogged on it a few times. Instead, I'll just share some...

The other day, Emma Watson (or whoever runs her social media account -- it's possible she's handed over the reins ) posted the messa...

The other day, I had the throwback experience of seeing an ad for Life Alert featuring the "I've fallen and I can't get up!...

Everyone's favorite Debate Link tradition, coming to you live from Christmas Day! Here are the 2021 resolutions , and the whole series c...

It's not quite a tradition, but we have done it at least once before : an out/in list. What is out, and what is in, come the New Year? R...

Kevin Drum flags a new approach from former President Donald Trump vis-à-vis the vaccine: it was my doing and MAGA-land should stop letting ...

It's another 8th Circuit special ! This week's entry is Irvin v. Richardson , involving a so-called " Terry  stop" in Ce...

The big money story in politics this week, literally, is that the famed pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC is starting a PAC . If that doesn't...

It was the "f*ck him" heard 'round the (Jewish) world . Donald Trump, in an interview, raged against former Israeli Prime Mini...

We are witnessing the start of a race: the race, between various political factions generally but not exclusively tracking "Zionist...

Note: This was originally going to be a column published in a Jewish media outlet -- it got caught in publishing purgatory for months before...

A few months ago, I described the David Miller controversy as the JDA's "test case" : would it ever be used to declare a conte...