The Debate Link

My wonderful co-bloggers at TMV already have several posts giving their takes on how the Biden choice will affect the presidential race ( To...

In one easy to navigate flow chart ! Fun fact: unskilled immigrants have virtually no chance of being approved, even though America needs un...

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, justifying conscience exemptions for doctors (and nurses and volunteers and trainees) who don't want to

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news Ward Connerly's petition to ban affirmative action in Arizona has been thrown out, afte...

Spencer Ackerman takes a fresh look at the New Republic/Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy. When I read Franklin Foer's fact-check of t...

Who is stunned to hear this ? "It's -- you know, it's just -- it's just we can't hit the girl. I don't care how far...

I think folks might have the wrong idea about what the "legacy of slavery" (or Jim Crow or discrimination) is. As far as I can tel...

Once again, CNN goes off and carries John McCain's water : The remark comes days after McCain faced criticism from Obama over a weekend ...

The article from Ha'aretz manages to highlight both the best and the worst elements of Israeli society. Shooting the foot of a bound pr...

The box on my just-purchased Subway "fresh baked" apple pie warns: "Caution: Filling may be hot". I suppose it might be,...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news Americans of all stripes mourn the death of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH). After gradu...

I'm enjoying watching The Olympics, but the way that the television coverage has been such a pro-China love-fest is really sickening to ...

Marcia McCormick of Workplace Prof Blogs comments on a case recently handed down by the 9th circuit that she says has "echoes of Ledbe...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The cellmate of a immigrant who died in US custody described the incredible pain he was i...

I've never had any major problems with Justice Anthony Kennedy myself, though it seems that others do. Consequently, Brooks Holland fi...

Big moves in the blogosphere were announced today. Kevin Drum announced that he will be leaving his perch at the Washington Monthly to take...

I'm somewhat of a zealot when it comes to attacking the use of the term "Judeo-Christian", which I think inaccurately lumps to...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The highest court in California has ruled that doctors cannot refuse to treat gay and lesb...

So one of the predominant misconceptions out there today about affirmative action is that it's a quota system. This is false, as I have ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a great post up (boy is that ever redundant) on the long simmering discontent many young Blacks have felt for the Jess...