The Debate Link

In the sprawling field vying to replace deceased Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, there were no less than five current elected officials runn...

 "How can a man be a Rightist when he is a Jew?," Albert Memmi asked in A Portrait of the Jew . The alliance of Jewry with Right w...

Shortly after the 2016 election, I posted something on Facebook observing that Trump's victory proved that White racism was alive and we...

Tomorrow (well, I suppose later today -- Nov. 2, at any rate) at 11:30 AM (Pacific), I'll be presenting "White Jews: An Intersectio...

One of the many fun events of the past few years has been the Supreme Court deciding it is going to blow apart and reconstruct First Amendme...

Earlier today, I was having an internet discussion about a tweet from Ibram X. Kendi  where he said that one element of racism "is to ...

The Washington Monthly has a good, short profile up on India Walton , the self-described socialist who is the Democratic nominee for Mayor o...

How can Democrats respond to Republican attempts at consolidating power and locking out even future Democratic majorities? For example, aggr...

As recently as, oh, two years ago, if you asked the media to imagine its archetype of an anti-vaxxer, they would have given you some crunchy...

What does it mean, to be part of a political movement that ... loses? Most political organizing, as I understand it, is not primarily about ...

My SunriseDC posts have gotten me a bunch of new followers , and I've promised to start disappointing them as soon as possible. Well, ...

After furious pushback from pretty much every quarter, Sunrise DC claims to be reflecting and pondering upon the reaction it got from its a...

"I'm so proud of you!" As a professor, I have happily had many occasions to speak and think these words. Whenever one of my st...

The problem with the internet is that it's full of bad people. Let me explain. The internet is also full of good people. And average peo...

The American Federation of Teachers has several hundred thousand dollars invested in Israel bonds . It has publicly endorsed a two-state sol...