The Debate Link

In cancelling DACA, Attorney General Jeff Sessions positively cited our nations' immigration policy shift in 1924 , when we enacted raci...

The headline said: "Why a Republican Pollster is Losing Faith in Her Party." I immediately thought: "I bet it's Kristen ...

If you asked me to describe a Jewish Trump voter without sparing the snark, I'd have trouble topping how they talk about themselves : ...

*WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SEASON ONE OF "THE GOOD PLACE"* NBC's comedy "The Good Place" returns soon for its second s...

I've long been struck by how the Jewish hard-right and the Jewish far-left mirror one another with respect to how they view the American...

I, of course, am watching the big fight tonight -- Miguel Cotto vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai . Why, what are you watching? In all seriousness, I ...

In 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting en banc , decided City of Manchester v. Phelps-Roper . The case ...

A federal court invalidated an attempt by the state of Arizona to shut down a Mexican-American Studies curriculum in Tucson high schools , c...

One of Paul Ryan's constituents, a local Rabbi, asked him if he'd support a resolution censuring President Trump for his grotesque ...

MaNishtana, a prominent African-American Jewish writer, has a bracing but well-worth-it post on the (generally White) Jewish reaction to a r...

I took my final subfield exam today, in the History of Political Thought. For those of you who don't know, "subfield exams" we...

There's an episode of Rick & Morty where Rick is trapped in a simulation by alien scammers seeking to steal some of his scientific ...

No substantial commentary. Just felt like linking to the following stories about some very different Jews. Ha'aretz does a feature whe...

The second job I wanted to be when I grew up was a cartoonist (the first was omelet chef at a Marriott. Little kids have weird goals). I lov...

People keep saying they're "shocked" by what's happening in Charlottesville. Or they're shocked by the failure of th...

One interesting but often-overlooked aspect of the debate over the proposed Israel Anti-Boycott act is how it merges two very distinct cult...

Salim Joubran, the first Arab Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court, has retired (he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70). I had th...

An apparel company is on attack for selling a t-shirt with a rainbow Nazi swastika and the caption "peace". It says its goal is t...

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" ...