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The November election pretty well confirmed the controversial central assertion in Thomas Schaller's Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats...

U.S. Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates arrives for an appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation heari...

(bintlouisa writes from her country, giving a view of the background of ongoing opposition demonstrations very different from that in the U....

Photo via Get Religiion. The Christian season of Advent, which begins today, is about waiting in hope, watching, and being prepared. There...

Last night I joined another politically experienced friend in talking with some local young leftist organizers. At their request, we discuss...

"There are reports from Washington that we are looking for a graceful exit," said Mr Bush. "But we will stay until the ...

Will there ever be one of these books about Israel's apartheid wall? Or the U.S. border wall planned to enrich profiteering government...

This Iraqi couple had a good life in Basra before the Americans came. He was a television technician. Last summer they were lucky to be unem...

I couldn't run in the woods today -- what my host here calls "bang-bang season" opened this morning. And the booms of shotguns...

Back on Martha's Vineyard this holiday weekend -- and somewhat attuned to the culture after a long summer here, so I wasn't entirely...

A man cries over the coffin of a relative who was killed during Thursday's bomb attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City November 24, 2006. T...

"It's always Christmas time for Visa Mastercard gets presents every day They're happy as can be when we Discover 'ne...

Happy Thanksgiving.

A handy list of where Democratic and Republican Presidential hopefuls stand on the Iraq war.

Ethan Vesely-Flad of the Fellowship of Reconciliation collects signatures on a National Religious Coalition against Torture (NRCAT) petiti...

On Sunday, November 19, the Islamic Studies section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) hosted a panel of six scholars, each speaking ...

Researcher Lynne Gerber nailed it: fundamentalists seek to appropriate "health" to enforce their cramped "values." The B...

I spent the day wandering around the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature today in W...

The god Imhotep receives homage, while wondering whether the goddesses Frisker and Pigeon Eater know he is encroaching on their realm.

This week, South Africa did what seems to be beyond most of the United States: it legalized gay marriage. The vote in Parliament, where the...