The Debate Link

The Biden administration's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan should be viewed as a milestone moment in political courage. Instead, a...

At the start of the congressional session, I predicted that " endless stunt investigations is all the House GOP will do, because it...

A new book tells the gripping story about a Polish Jew and brilliant mathematician who, during the Holocaust, pretended to be a member of th...

It's a big day today -- it's my birthday! We're having a bunch of friends over to our house to celebrate my birthday and for no ...

One of the more shocking incidents witnessed in anti-Israel protests that occurred immediately following Hamas' October 7 attack was the...

Azerbaijan is holding a Potemkin presidential election tomorrow. But what makes this one especially outstanding is that not only did the aut...

In the latest effort to keep the reward loop for bad faith grandstanding on campus speech and antisemitism churning, right-wing actors are...

It's February, which is Black History Month, or as it's better known around some parts, "Why Isn't There a White History Mo...

The Forward reports that J Street has dropped its endorsement of Jamaal Bowman after concluding that his recent rhetorical framings and pra...

One of the bigger political stories to cross my path the past week was the report that a planned meeting between Biden campaign surrogates a...

Penn Gillette, the vocal half of the magical duo Penn & Teller, has a very interesting and thoughtful interview in Cracked that I enjoye...

Hamas has released a slickly produced document providing a belated "narrative" of what happened on October 7 . I link to it for re...

A recurrent theme I've been hitting regarding calls for a "ceasefire" is that the term is meaningless without explication of t...

Among the signs that were spotted at a major  pro-Palestine protest in New York back in November , there was one that read "Ceasefire N...

One of the more common refrains I heard by persons who wanted to defend Elise Stefanik's bad faith grandstanding on campus free speech ...

As some of you may know, Portland has been hit by a brutal ice storm this weekend that's knocked out power throughout the city . Over 20...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has issued an emergency order waiving various requirements for prospective transfer students into Florida pub...

I was driving home from work the other night, and on my dimly lit suburban street I passed not one but two people walking their dogs while w...

While it wasn't on my formal list , I propose that one of our collective new year's resolutions be to remember that one does not, un...

I really do try to stay off the bad place. You know that trope in cartoons where the protagonist runs away from monsters or a blizzard or so...