The Debate Link

Already the designers are a blur. But these are my quick thoughts after the first episode: * I knew Kate would be the returning designer, ...

Sociological Images has a terrifying graph that documents racial disparities in justifiable homicide verdicts Before I go any further, I...

I posted this on my facebook wall, but it really is more of a post-verdict follow-up to this post . * * * In an idealized criminal justi...

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to serve on a jury. When I have this thought, it's invariably followed up by amazement that jur...

I want to give some props to Robert Farley for writing a very rare sort of post: Taking a topic I don't really care about but am predis...

As he departs office as President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reflects on his greatest accomplishments : Outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud...

To what few people still read this, hope you're having a Happy Fourth of July! Jill and I already began celebrating earlier this week ...

JTA has an interesting article up on Jewish organizations which responded to Secretary of State John Kerry's call to support a two-stat...

Regarding Tom Osborne , former Nebraska football coach and then Republican congressional representative: The penultimate chapter in the bo...

This Phillip Weiss essay about Justice Kagan's recent forays into hunting feels like it could stumble across an interesting observation...

Alec MacGillis does not think Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is a real candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Part o...

Interesting tidbit from Justice Scalia's Windsor dissent: He seems to endorse congressional guerilla warfare against the presidency as t...

The Supreme Court released three race/discrimination decisions today. The most prominent, Fisher v. University of Texas , also turned out to...

An ongoing linguistic dilemma I have is how to generically refer to females of my rough age. "Girl" is inappropriate because they...

After Israeli minister and Jewish Home chieftain Naftali Bennett declared outright opposition to the two-state solution, the American Jewish...

Israel is toughening its laws against so-called "price tag" militants, moving to draw parity between these terrorists and Palesti...

President Obama endorsed the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill in a speech yesterday . Jamelle Bouie is in a panic : In no way is i...

Now this is a story . Palestinian Finance Minister shows up at a BDS conference. Participant asks minister why they're still engaging in...

America's policy towards Syria has been rather ambivalent. And most Americans seem to share in that ambivalence. It's not hard to un...

Congratulations to Samantha Power, author of "A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide", who's been tapped as our n...