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Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's reform-minded chief prosecutor, was recalled by a wide margin on Tuesday. The media has been quick to hail...

It's one of the great paradoxes of modern politics. The "economically liberal, socially conservative" quadrant of the politica...

I don't like member-on-member Democratic primaries. That's because, for the most part, I like Democratic incumbents. I rarely bear t...

In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, the internet is replete with proposals on how to avoid or at least mitigate the risks of yet another sch...

There's a lot of chatter right now about reports that police waited quite a long time before police entered in force the Texas elementar...

A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas has killed nearly two dozen people, including nineteen children. I grieve for the parent...

In 2020, Republican politicians made bogus claims of fraud in order to justify attempting to steal an election they lost. But why bother wit...

Yesterday was a big primary day, and there are a lot of storylines being bandied about. One close to my neck of the political woods has been...

Years ago, I remember reading a famous paradox concerning how Americans viewed the subject of foreign aid. If you asked them "should th...

Earlier this week, Shireen Abu Aqleh, a highly respected Palestinian journalist, was killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank . Eyewit...

I don't want to give any grandstanding GOP District Attorney ideas here, but I have a question about potential legal jeopardy of women w...

Apropos of nothing in particular, I thought it was worth noting an easily-overlooked elision that sometimes makes the antisemitic chant ...

Ohio's primaries are in the books. The two biggest stories, at least from my vantage, are J.D. Vance defeating Josh Mandel (and some oth...

It's primary season here in Oregon, and I'm new in town. Consequently, I don't know a ton about local politics here. I'm try...

As the implications of the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe  continue to reverberate, one major political figure has...

Michelle Goldberg has a very insightful column in the New York Times about antisemitism . It begins by talking about the rapid acceleration ...

A new article co-authored by Albert Cheng, Jay P. Greene, and Ian Kingsbury was just published in Antisemitism Studies  purporting to show t...

I'm in Chicago right now, presenting at a conference on the Reconstruction Amendments back at the University of Chicago Law School . I...

For the past few months, I've been following the story of Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a Jewish professor who was summarily terminated from h...

The New York Jewish Week has an interesting story about a clump of fringe Satmar Hasidic Rabbis  in New York who are urging their followers ...