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When it comes to keeping women pregnant and in their place, polygamous Mormons and the Pope have a lot in common.

The media's portrayal of Obama's former pastor as racist reflects an ignorance about the black church and its rhetorical traditions.

On his first papal visit to America, will Pope Benedict address the real problems confronting the Catholic Church?

What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?

The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series
of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.

Why the fuss over Obama's pastor when Bible-based damnations for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches?

Passover and Earth Day fall in the same week in April this year. Here's how environmental activists and people of faith can respond to this holy season of liberation.

When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

The new evangelicals are rejecting the religious right and embracing a broader social gospel.

What do neocons and their media mouthpieces fear most about Obama's stance on Israel? Could it be honesty?

Blogs

'A Punk Prayer' distills the group's protest and trial into a parable on Vladimir Putin's free speech crackdown.

May 14, 2013

A TV debate over Muslims and violence and America's own terror practices.

May 13, 2013

Social Security hasn't contributed to this deficit and won't add to future debt—and it's journalistic malpractice for the mainstream press to suggest otherwise.

April 11, 2013

Hollingsworth v. Perry has a chance of being dismissed without a ruling, leaving a better case to serve as the vehicle for the court's opinion on marriage.

March 29, 2013

Liberals concerned with Israel often miss the inconvenient fact of the radical Palestinian organization's human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip. Reed Richardson also writes about the outsized State of the Union response allowed to the Tea Party. 

February 14, 2013

Much of the coverage of the former Cardinal Ratzinger doesn’t mention that for years he was in charge of the church’s files on abuse by priests.

February 12, 2013

A new HBO documentary reports on victims—and heroes.

February 8, 2013

Leading Catholic theologians, priests, nuns and former US ambassadors to the Vatican call on Ryan and others to back gun-safety legislation.

January 24, 2013

The Internet rightly takes the magazine to task for the article, which ran under a small disclaimer and a large The Atlantic logo.

January 15, 2013

Who is more valuable, a living woman or a dying fetus? The Catholic Church has given its answer, and Savita Halapannavar is dead.

November 14, 2012
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