Ashley Baxstrom:  The Swiss upper house on Monday buried a motion to ban the burqa, which had passed...

Ashley Baxstrom: What's up with France?  President Nicolas Sarkozy of France joined President Barack Obama here in New...

Kathryn Montalbano: NiqaBitch, a YouTube video released shortly after France's September 2010 April 2011 official ban of...

"I believe the Founding Fathers were moved around like men on a chessboard put in place at that time...

Stephanie Butnick: In Tablet, Ryann Liebenthal accompanies a group of French Jews as they move to Israel. After...

Adam H. Becker: Cries of discrimination have been raised in France over the decision by a private restaurant chain...

09 December 2005 Today marks the centennial of France’s legislation separating church and state: the framework for its concept...

By Cidney Dutton Laïcité, the French term for the separation of church and state, is a relatively new concept...

“When the sun sets, the violence begins. Burning cars, balaclava-clad youth battling police (sometimes with real bullets), and an...

Got a privilege to be hostile, a Revealer favorite, points us to this overlooked AlterNet story: Swiss citizen Tariq Ramadan, one of the...

“The funniest philosopher of all time”? Scott McLemee, at The Chronicle of Higher Education, reviews The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology (Princeton University...

“Perhaps,” writes The Weekly Standard‘s Christopher Caldwell, “we assume too much in asserting that the open democratic republics of the West...

France, lately indistinguishable from Saudi Arabia to many Americans, is considering banning the hijab from public schools. The idea gained steam...