The Debate Link

Michigan Reps. Andy Levin and Haley Stevens -- Democrats thrown into the same district following redistricting -- had a candidate's foru...

A new study ( summarized here , published and paywalled version here ) explores how the phrase "objectively reasonable" -- a very ...

Suppose you attend a stand-up comedy performance. You're excited to listen and giggle and laugh. But unfortunately, the comic in questio...

A non-exhaustive list (though I, personally, am quite exhausted): Is Israel (or Palestine) more the "Ukraine" or more the "Ru...

Is it necessarily problematic when people make "wrong" claims of antisemitism? "Wrong", of course, is not a synonym for ...

A few months ago, AIPAC announced it was breaking with its longstanding tradition to directly endorse and fundraise on behalf of political c...

A Kentucky state legislator went   on a bizarre tirade about various Jewish connections to RU-486 (popularly known as "the abortion bi...

A minor league baseball player, Brett Netzer, was released by the Red Sox organization after going on a bigoted tirade against a Jewish team...

Russia's war against Ukraine has begun in full force. So far, the Ukrainian government and people have done a remarkable job in slowing ...

The war has begun . It is pure, unadulterated, irredentist imperialist aggression by a far-right authoritarian state against an American all...

The JTA reported yesterday that the Jewish Federations of North America, the umbrella organization of local Jewish Federations, had removed ...

Long ( loooong ) time readers of this blog may recall the case of Bongani Masuku, a former top trade union official in South Africa alleged ...

A recall election targeting three progressive members of the San Francisco school board has succeeding by a thumping margin, with the pro-re...

The original "tankie" incident, the one that gave the term its name, came when the Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956 to crush a work...

My birthday (actual birthday, not blog-birthday) was today! Congrats on surviving another year!* * Not quite the given it's been in year...

"That kiss wasn't for pleasure, it was strategic and joyless." Both Kevin Drum and Amanda Marcotte , in slightly different wa...

Are you watching The Afterparty on AppleTV?   You should if you can. A genre-bending murder mystery with a great comedic cast (how wrong can...

This passage, about a Jewish couple in Tennessee whose attempt to adopt a three-year old child was rejected because they were Jewish , struc...

In the wake of the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, two things became clear about the congregation's approach to its safety and sta...

A bit player in a certain Jewish drama which I otherwise will not name was the allegation that a given person had betrayed the Jewish people...