israel/palestine

There are reportedly a record number of openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual athletes competing in this year’s Olympics, which the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers wrote are getting under way “against…

An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis

“P2P: Challenging Extremism” is a new State Department-sponsored program that enlists American college students to combat online extremism. Avi Asher-Schapiro described the scene at a recent P2P event…

Several days ago, before the Saudi government’s execution of prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr took tensions between Riyadh and Teheran to a new high, a reader emailed me a deceptively…

Advent is upon us as we await the coming of the world’s most famous Palestinian—Jesus of Nazareth. In this time that’s dedicated to a poor child born to an unwed mother, my conscience has forced my…

An excerpt from Asma Afsaruddin’s new book, “Contemporary Issues in Islam.”

Capital in the Twenty-First Century made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the…

Last night, as news of the shootings in San Bernardino was being digested, the Twitterverse erupted in debate over the proper response. Some commentators—most notably Igor Volsky of the liberal think…

Last week, a terrorist group launched a coordinated attack across Paris. In the past few weeks, the very same group took down a Russian airliner full of returning tourists, bombed a neighborhood in…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been widely mocked in the media. Carson has typically been characterized as an anti-intellectual…