The Debate Link

I've staked out a rather unique position in the last few contested Democratic primaries, in that -- while having a preferred candidate -...

Some of you may have seen the story of a Conservative Jewish day camp which hosted a group of Palestinian youth from "Kids4Peace" ...

A prominent clinic at the University of North Carolina law school looks likely to be functionally shuttered after a committee of the UNC Boa...

Google has a new gadget that tries to gauge how "toxic" a given comment is . It has a lot of learning to do. "Dogs are animal...

Errol Spence Jr. is a former U.S. Olympian, a current titleholder in the welterweight division, and a rising star in the world of boxing. W...

There's something very odd about how conservatives frame calls for investigating Russia's attempted interference in our election. Th...

The JTA just published my thoughts on the Israel Anti-Boycott bill (adapted from this post ). Let's see -- I've done Tablet , Forwa...

Some of you may have read a recent Intercept post claiming that Congress is considering banning support for the boycott of Israel (by ...

Evelyn Torton Beck's Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology arrived in the mail today. Originally published in 1982, it remains both wo...

Holy moly, Jennifer Rubin is speaking sense : Let me suggest the real problem is not the Trump family, but the GOP. To paraphrase Brooks, ...

The Chicago Dyke March, an alternative to Chicago Pride that is meant to have a more "social justice" orientation, caught a heap o...

Last fall, I noted that if there was any hope that Senate Republicans would actually exercise meaningful oversight over the Trump administr...

When I read that an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan had been denied a visa to come to the US and participate in a robotics competi...

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters supports BDS. Consequently, he wants Radiohead to cancel their concert in Israel . Nassau County, New Yor...

Avi Gabbay is the new head of Israel's Labor Party , defeating former Labor head and former Defense Minister Amir Peretz in a run-off (b...

I've written a bit about nuclear power before , and how it may be our best hope at achieving deep decarbonization in a reasonable time f...

The New York Times has an article about utility efforts to roll back "net metering"* for solar power . The article is pretty cle...

I love root beer. As a non-alcohol drinker, it's the closest thing I get to experiencing the varieties of real beer. And so, for years, ...

When the Israeli government reneged on its promise to promote equal space for non-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall -- and moved forward a b...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a gripping profile of a Muslim doctor living in Dawson, Minnesota -- why he moved there, how the election ...