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Earlier this week, Shireen Abu Aqleh, a highly respected Palestinian journalist, was killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank . Eyewit...

I don't want to give any grandstanding GOP District Attorney ideas here, but I have a question about potential legal jeopardy of women w...

Apropos of nothing in particular, I thought it was worth noting an easily-overlooked elision that sometimes makes the antisemitic chant ...

Ohio's primaries are in the books. The two biggest stories, at least from my vantage, are J.D. Vance defeating Josh Mandel (and some oth...

It's primary season here in Oregon, and I'm new in town. Consequently, I don't know a ton about local politics here. I'm try...

As the implications of the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe  continue to reverberate, one major political figure has...

Michelle Goldberg has a very insightful column in the New York Times about antisemitism . It begins by talking about the rapid acceleration ...

A new article co-authored by Albert Cheng, Jay P. Greene, and Ian Kingsbury was just published in Antisemitism Studies  purporting to show t...

I'm in Chicago right now, presenting at a conference on the Reconstruction Amendments back at the University of Chicago Law School . I...

For the past few months, I've been following the story of Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a Jewish professor who was summarily terminated from h...

The New York Jewish Week has an interesting story about a clump of fringe Satmar Hasidic Rabbis  in New York who are urging their followers ...

Upon Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's inauguration, I made an observation about how wonderful it is to be Republican in purple-state A...

In a speech the other day, Justice Barrett had a request of persons criticizing the Court for decisions they claim are politically- or resul...

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick Israel exists. It is not going anyw...

Sometimes I think the most important thing we can do keep ourselves politically healthful is to remember the existence of extremists -- both...

I am a booster of the Abraham Accords. I consider them an unadulterated good. In a region of the world that has been beset by tension and co...

Why has the Russian invasion of Ukraine grabbed and held international attention? It is not, sad to say, the only example of armed conflict ...

Michigan Reps. Andy Levin and Haley Stevens -- Democrats thrown into the same district following redistricting -- had a candidate's foru...

A new study ( summarized here , published and paywalled version here ) explores how the phrase "objectively reasonable" -- a very ...

Suppose you attend a stand-up comedy performance. You're excited to listen and giggle and laugh. But unfortunately, the comic in questio...