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Yesterday, in Chestnut v. Wallace ,* the Eighth Circuit denied an officer qualified immunity. That itself is arguably worthy of noting, sinc...

The AMCHA Initiative has a new self-published study , which is gaining some attention in the Jewish Press, purporting to show that when teac...

The New York Times has officially endorsed not one, but two candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary: Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Am...

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig is suing the New York Times for defamation , stemming from a headline that read "A Harvard Professor...

Nelly Jordan, Vice-Chairwoman of the Sussex County (Delaware) GOP, has been ousted from her position  after she blamed "Jews" for ...

Joe Biden's status as front-runner, right now, rests almost entirely on the fact that he is far and away the top choice of African-Ameri...

The latest drama on Jewish Twitter comes from a column from the AJC's Seffi Kogen , speaking on how Orthodox Jews cannot practically avo...

*Project Runway spoilers* For the past few years, my nickel description of Karlie Kloss -- Heidi Klum's replacement on Project Runway ...

Right up until election day, most people thought Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election. She didn't, and many people have many diff...

NBC News, which as a mainstream media source Is Not Covering Violence Against Jews(tm), has an interesting article up discussing how the Jew...

Or is it New Decade's Resolutions? It'd take the pressure off to have ten years instead of a measly one. The 2019 resolutions are...

In keeping with the traditional Jewish Christmas festivities, I saw a movie last night. I actually managed to avoid most of the substantive ...

I'm off to the Florida panhandle to spend time with my in-laws -- then back to California where my college buddies will come to me for N...

The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump . I have many feelings competing for primacy about this moment. ...

Here's a question I've been pondering: Imagine an election with three parties: A, B, and C. Suppose that the election is decided o...

Had Labour won last week's UK general election, it would have been a stamp of endorsement for the horrifying wave of antisemitism Corbyn...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a series of cases testing the authority of government to exercise oversight over Donald Trump . Trump h...

I've been keeping a bit of a lower profile this year -- I'm on the job market, and so it just seemed prudent to maybe tamp down on a...

This was a piece I initially wrote for publication outside of the blog. It had a tumultuous journey, including being accepted in one newspap...

It's been a rough week (he says, on a Thursday  [ dear God it's still only Wednesday -- DS ]). It began with President Trump once ...