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Many rejoiced after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-same marriage nationally in late June. Others jeered. But whatever a person’s take on the Court’s ruling, Americans at this historical moment…

This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society. In this essay, RD associate editor Michael Schulson analyzes the patterns of blame that emerge in the…

Anyone scanning the headlines about the federal appeals court’s rejection of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate could be forgiven for…

Last month, as many conservative Christians mourned the “collapse of marriage” nationally, one notable evangelical marriage quietly collapsed in Florida. Reverend Tullian Tchividjian (pronounced cha…

Christians are just too gullible. That’s the message from Ed Stetzer, writing at Christianity Today, about internet hoaxes masquerading as news that duped Christian readers who then shared them widely…

In a recent article for The Cubit’s series on blame, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour asks an important question: why do people more readily blame individuals than institutions? In Aghapour’s…

“ virtue of spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks, but what it sees.” Roland Barthes, Mythologies Part of what spectacle is good for is…

In this latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul offers some good things to blame all Muslims for. The…

A Q&A with Jason C. Bivins

Shortly after Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj’s, ” An Open Letter to American Muslims,” was first published on RD this past Tuesday, it became clear that it had launched a critical discussion across the…