In a recent interview Egyptian-born journalist Mona Eltahawy tells Bill Maher (notoriously anti-religion, Maher so often perfectly demonstrates the confounding...

Jay Bakker's going out on a limb for The Gays.  In his new book,  Fall to Grace:  A...

My friend Sam is in Egypt.  Here's an excerpt from his recent blog post which can also be...

Abby Ohlheiser and Jessamy Klapper:  Below are some of the writers and resources we've been using to track the...

My friend, Sam, who live son a houseboat on the Nile writes: As the protesters marched forward some policemen were...

Mary Valle: Way to go, Baltimore City Paper, for covering Viva House's rejection of the loyalty oath now demanded of United...

Did the Rabbis convince Rupert Murdock to edit Glenn Beck yet?

Far be it from us to support gay-bashing, censorship or breaking the law, ahem, but this little piece from...

It may be altogether historically inaccurate, but the equation of abortion to slavery is a compelling argument for abortion...

My naive questions on this anniversary of Roe v. Wade are: Why, when organized anti-abortion groups are predominantly evangelical/fundamentalist/orthodox...

This week veteran journalist Seymour Hersh came under fire for having delivered what Foreign Policy calls a "conspiracy-laden"...

Andy Kopsa writes about the awkward title of a fantastic and haunting article by Sarah Blustain at Mother...

Abby Ohlheiser: Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure...

NYPD cops-in-training recently were shown an instructive film, the Village Voice reports.  "The film is called The...

Should we argue theology with anti-gay rights folks?

Abby Ohlheiser: In the collective gasp that followed the shooting in Tucson on Saturday, the story of the ongoing...

Sarah Palin has a video out this morning that addresses the criticism she's received in the wake of...

rom Jill Lepore, at The New York Times News Desk blog: No one knows why Jared Lee Loughner...

Trent Franks (R-AZ) made a fantastic assignation of blame today when speaking with Candy Crowley on CNN.  The...

The first creationism bill of the year has hit the books in Kentucky, home state of the

Mary Valle: My favorite cheek-shaved, neck-bearded Catholic convert, Ross Douthat, weighs in today (sort of? His columns...