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The Israel Group sent out a message to their listserv warning of  BDS starting to emerge at two Israeli universities -- Hebrew University in...

Remember those annoying Jill Stein voters who "honestly preferred" that Donald Trump win the election because it would inevitably ...

One of the odder tropes of current conservative discourse related to the possibility of constraining the excesses of the Trump administratio...

FiveThirtyEight has an interesting graphic about which groups Democrats and Republicans think face "a lot of discrimination." ...

On the first weekend of May, my true love gave to me .... Five restaurants to eat at; Four Schraubs/Roddes with us; Three days in Vegas;...

Jacob Katz, editor of the Jerusalem Post , on why his newspaper invited neo-Nazi-linked White House advisor Sebastian Gorka to speak at thei...

A popular Israeli singer's scheduled concert in the Detroit area was canceled after organizers received threats and could no longer guar...

Sometimes, I change my mind about things. That's normal, indeed, healthy. We should change our minds, sometimes. When we get new infor...

The House of Representatives, in a razor-thin 217-213 vote, has voted to repeal and replace Obamacare with the AHCA . The crucial amendment ...

There's some chatter that Democrats actually hope that House Republicans manage to pass the AHCA (aka, Obamacare repeal), on the ground...

South Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R), the longest serving member of Florida's congressional delegation, has announced he...

The other day, I read an article about an (apparently long-standing, but about to be discontinued) practice by the New Orleans District Atto...

The controversy over noted climate change denialist Bret Stephens' hiring by the New York Times appears to have taken the Grey Lady by ...

A few weeks ago, when Berkeley was slated to have back-to-back appearances by David Horowitz and Ann Coulter, I asked my students if they kn...

In a story that has something in it for everyone, the Israeli government just appointed the first Muslim woman, Hana Khatib, to one of its o...

Shon Hopwood robbed a bank, and served 11 years in prison. While incarcerated, he studied in the prison law library and -- incredibly -- aut...

The first round of the 2017 French presidential elections has concluded, and center-to-center-left Emmanuel Macron (23.8%) will face far-rig...

A professor at Arizona State permitted his students to hold a protest on an issue of their choice as their final project. Students elect to...

There are about a million and one things I dislike about Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly's recent speech on immigration policy . ...

The New York Times has hired conservative columnist Bret Stephens , lately of the Wall Street Journal , to provide an additional conservativ...