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The release this week of the formal texts of both the whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump and one of the White House'...

Because I tuned in late and initially caught only the last half of Thursday night's Democratic debate, I was very surprised hear pundits...

In the wake of the 2016 election there was a great deal of writing from the conservative commentariat about the the blame that the political...

An old friend and colleague sent me a recent article by David Frum, published in The Atlantic , in which Frum asks, "What if they are n...

Dear President Trump,            I was horrified to see you encouraging chants of "Send Her Back" at your rally in Greenville, ...

Donald Trump's greatest legacy may be having generated need for more words in the English lexicon than any other president. His recent c...

        I had heard about the Kaifeng Jews before ever thinking to learn Chinese thirty years ago, and because I am Jewish, I have been ask...

The Mueller Report has arrived, and according to Attorney General Barr, it does not contain sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy bet...

To the Honorable Representatives Tlaib and Omar:             As a fellow American and Democrat who is also a Jew and a Zionist, I write to...

I have been getting a lot of messages and questions from friends and family about Israel, and especially about attitudes toward Israel in...

The Trump presidency increasingly induces the feeling that one is living in an Ionesco play. The frequency with which we are all reduced to ...

If the Trump presidency has taught us anything, it is that things can always get worse. The "Muslim ban," the Singapore and Helsin...

Dear President Trump,       I write to you as a Democrat, as a Jew, as an American, but more fundamentally as a fellow human being. The ev...

The Republicans are very good at myth-making. Brett Kavanaugh deployed one of their favorite myths during his own remarks before the Senate ...

In his opening remarks at the beginning of the review process for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee, ...