The Debate Link

There's a fascinating tidbit in a newly released poll about various religious groups' political opinions : Muslims and Jews hold ver...

I had this strange thought the other night that Donald Trump might be the Republican equivalent of the Carter administration. That is, a fai...

I'm generally averse to comparing things to the Holocaust or Nazism. There are a variety of reasons for my reluctance, but one major com...

This is a gripping account from the pilot of El Al flight 219 , which Leila Khaled and a partner tried to hijack in 1970. Khaled had already...

It's a good time to be an actress who looks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A bunch of shows have created characters that seemed like obv...

It depresses me (if it is even possible for me to become more depressed -- yup, turns out it is) that we have to immediately turn to the pol...

 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Surprising absolutely nobody,  Mitch McConnell has ...

Two years ago, I wrote that the natural conclusion of the White nationalist fanaticism coursing through the Republican Party is forcing immi...

I'm trying to figure out why this round of protests against police violence feels  different, in terms of the public resonance it's ...

In several places, I've seen folks say that Minnesota is state must likely to flip from Clinton to Trump in 2020. Even for someone like ...

Some of you may have heard that Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who became (in)famous for a seri...

Massachusetts had its congressional primaries yesterday . I put down some predictions, and I'm decently pleased with my performance . I ...

It's primary night in Massachusetts! Time for me to lay down my marker and level my predictions. MA-Sen: Markey over Kennedy (+/- 10 p...

A coalition of left-wing groups has announced a new initiative , "United Against Hate", seeking to counter antisemitism in America...

If I were in Massachusetts, I'd vote for Ed Markey to return to the Senate. It's a pretty easy call for me, honestly. Markey has b...

My current time suck activity is the remake of Final Fantasy VII . The original was one of my favorite games as a kid, and like many in my g...

The UN Security Council today declined to extend an arms embargo against Iran, over furious protests by the United States, Israel, and Arab ...

As you may have heard, Israel and the UAE have announced a historic agreement to normalize ties , in exchange for which Israel has committed...

California Senator Kamala Harris has been selected as Joe Biden's running mate . This is, I think, the chalk pick , and one I'm qu...

Belarus just had a presidential election, and incumbent Alexander Lukashenko -- who has held his position since the mid-1990s and is known a...