The Debate Link

Let's be clear: This description of Barack Obama working out is borderline pornographic. Not that I'd react any differently.

Back in 1994, Lani Guinier noted an interesting paradox regarding the ideology of "colorblindness": In contemporary discourse, col...

Israeli officials are moving forward with a plan to build a small new settlement in the West Bank, sparking dismay from the US and outrage ...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news Congress is questioning the use of expedited trial procedures against suspected illegal ...

I don't mean to be a one-trick pony today, but Pam has a guest-post up by Democratic Congressional candidate Ashwin Madia , who is runni...

I wish I wish I wish I could have been at this hearing on gay soldiers serving in the military . Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), a Iraq War vet,...

Remarking on Paul Caron's latest law blog rankings, Brian Leiter remarks: "Of the top five, four have almost nothing to do with l...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news An interesting profile of the Prince Williams County Police Chief, who is tasked with enfo...

This is a chilling story recounted by Bishop T.D. Jakes: I have twin boys who are almost 30 years old now. But when they were very young, I...

Back when I was in high school, Church/State separation was one of my pet issues. And believe you me, I was a staunch separationist. I wrote...

Legal Ethics experts Bruce Green and Bill Simon have been having a bit of a spat over an article Simon wrote. Green wrote a reply that viru...

The Obama and McCain campaigns have each dispatched a senior economic policy adviser to the Tax Policy Center for a forum on their respectiv...

A Louisiana cop might face criminal charges after tasering to death a Black suspect in a town near Jena. Fellow officer Chuck Curry defende...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The HIV/AIDS infection rate for American Latinos is skyrocketing. In some urban cities, th...

Last year, I came up with what I (in a severely sleep-deprived state) thought would make for beautifully passive-aggressive politics: I urge...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The ACLU is seeking to overturn Alabama's voter disenfranchisement law . The Boston Glo...

John Derbyshire lays down the law for Iraqis. Democracy? That's for suckahs! We'll do what we want to do in your "country...

An appeals court has overturned the $550,000 fine levied against CBS after Janet Jackson bared her breast for a fraction of a second during...

I know of a few (fewer than the media would have you believe, but a few) folks who were Hillary Clinton supporters in the primary and who ar...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The Boston Globe has a report on Democratic efforts to find an "anti-Scalia." ...