“The Betrayal of Judas” is the rare piece of journalism that sheds light on the secrets and lies of...

We're using the inclusion of numerous Christian music album covers in the Florida Sun-Sentinel's fabulous collection of the worst...

"Sharlet is not an angry liberal and the tone of the book is balanced, reasonable and often good humoured."...

Sharlet: Veteran Christian Right-watcher Frederick Clarkson reviews The Family for The Public Eye, the publication of Political Research Associates,...

Cliff Schecter, an Ohio-based investigative reporter with a new book on “The Real McCain,” collects the candidate’s most egregious...

Founder porn: a fetishistic fascination with the behind-the-scenes, under-the-covers, shifting whimsy of a group of men who set down...

Richard Byrne in Bookforum: “The Family is classic muckraking: passionate, principled, and powerful.”

Sharlet: I've been cruising the airwaves to promote my new book, The Family, talking with a lot of great...

Under the heading of American mythology, our national religion: "No-Man's Land," a meditation in The Believer on gentrification...

Contributing to the conservative drumbeat for war with Iran are the criers of “religious freedom,” who point, correctly, to...

One of the few advantages of maintaining a blog about media and religion is that when a media heavyweight...

Sharlet: Amanda Marcotte — the blogger behind Pandagon and author of It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival...

An excerpt from The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper), by Jeff Sharlet: He wandered...

“The good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere. I believe if it...

The Revealer welcomes assistant editor Vanessa Hartmann. Keep an eye out for her byline.

Mark Pinsky coins the kind of alliterative phrase that should produce a herd of stories following his trail: “mainline...

"Besides the Jew," writes Joshua Cohen in the Jewish Forward, "there is no greater hater of the self than...

Does the following sentence strike you as a little creepy? “In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 70...

Mollie Hemingway at The Revealer‘s conservative counterpart on the God beat, Get Religion, does an excellent job of exploring...

Could Harper's' timing have been better? Just as the California Supreme Court issues its landmark ruling on same-sex marriage,...

Upcoming Events — Sunday, May 18, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet discusses his new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism...

Bruce Wilson's discovery of McCain endorser John Hagee's anti-Semitic rantings is a brilliant example of what bloggers are capable...

Jeff Sharlet: My longtime collaborator and frequent Revealer contributor Peter Manseau has been given charge of a magazine called...

Diane Winston on The Family: "This book deserves to be read by every and any journalist. It's a primer...