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We all know about the grassroots activism of the “religious right” and the role they play in US political life. The promise of a surging “religious left” has recently generated attention, with others…

Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College, has a super original, never-before articulated idea about how the Democrats can “reclaim their Catholic base.”…

Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation: the Muslim Ban. And this new administration’s slapdash effort to ban travel from Iran…

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your favorite show? Really? Aren’t you a professor… and an adult… and a Man? But to the initiated… well, to the…

Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he…

Like many liberals since the election, I have been swinging between absolute terror and despair and bits of hopefulness among the flames.

Despite reports (from unnamed sources) suggesting otherwise, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not the secret ingredient to upholding LGBT rights under a Trump-Pence administration. Reports had been…

He said you would be safe and all you had to do was look the other way when he advocated racist platforms. You took that bribe.

“You saw those crowds at the inauguration? What a flock, right? You had a great view, I bet, the original Eye in the Sky. Back me up, it was over a billion people. Huge.”