Our country has a strong pattern of losing its mind over issues that later turn out to be insignificant.

Why did American televangelist Pat Robertson make a mining deal with accused war criminal and deposed Liberian President Charles Taylor?

There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan.

The 17th Karmapa can't travel, and China is to blame.

The politics of the Templeton Foundation's "Big Questions."

I don't like face-veiling either. But how does criminalizing Muslim women's clothing make them more equal?

For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."

American support for repressive governments has provided fertile ground for recruitment.

The Catholic Church's moral authority in the secular world is the most detestable aspect of the current scandal.

Tonight, President Obama will address the nation to discuss the drawdown of US combat forces in Iraq. In February, Robert Dreyfuss reported on the specter of civil conflict and the possibility of the outbreak of a civil war—which still looms.