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*Spoilers* Brooklyn Nine Nine had its series finale today. Jill and I have watched the show from the beginning -- we were hooked from the fi...

Yesterday, YIVO held a panel on "The Jewish press today" , featuring top editors from the Forward , JTA , and Tablet Magazine . In...

Buzzfeed has a story about  House Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)'s alleged terrible treatment of her staff . It re...

Since I'm now an official Portland resident, I decided to write an op/ed for my local paper, The Oregonian: "Portland Police Should...

My 9/11 story is not particularly special. I was in high school when the news reached us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Initia...

The California legislature has passed AB 101,  a law mandating ethnic studies instruction for all high school graduates starting in 2030 . T...

If you're aware of all internet traditions, you've undoubtedly heard of by now the idea of the "motte and bailey" style of...

In 2010, the ADL released a statement supporting efforts to ban construction of a mosque and Islamic community center in south Manhattan, cl...

The so-called "Jewish Institute for Liberal Values" has released a white paper on the subject of "Critical Social Justice...

Within a day of one another, the New York Times  and the City Journal  released articles on anti-racism curricula in the private schools of ...

Term at Lewis & Clark starts tomorrow, though my first class is on Tuesday. It's simultaneously not a big deal -- I've taught Co...

Earlier today, the Supreme Court declined to stay a Texas district court ruling which compelled the Biden administration to preserve a Trump...

Imagine you're a judge, deciding a First Amendment case involving speech that you know many (though not all) people find offensive or ev...

I'm watching The Chair , because I'm an academic so of course I am (the Sandra Oh top billing isn't necessary, but it's nice...

A not-so-modest proposal: The next time the United States commences a large-scale military incursion into another nation (and let's be r...

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), responding to the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, asks what he calls a "serious question...

For obvious reasons, the past few days have seen a lot of people making hay over the fact that "the Squad" voted against a recent ...

Nine moderate Democrats are trying to tank Joe Biden's strategy for passing his signature social policy package by demanding it be deco...

I've never been (and still am not) a police abolitionist. I've also never felt any particular way about police officers -- neither l...