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Significant budget shortfalls threaten the “outreach” of a religious right org.

RD talks with journalist Amy Waldman whose first novel, The Submission, presciently imagines a controversy, set in post-9/11 New York City, in which the design of a Muslim-American wins a contest to build a 9/11 memorial.

Sarah Palin is out to wreck the GOP and Obama—whether she runs or not—and her hardscrabble and devoted ‘Babies, Guns, and Jesus’ followers are behind her.

Coming to appreciate that we are not defined by what we do for money—but that we also have a right to be incensed about what’s become of paid employment in America—is important spiritual work.

Questions at the South Carolina candidate forum.

Filmmakers Joe Fox and James Nubile, granted “fly on the wall” access during the 2009 initiative to repeal Maine’s marriage equality law, expose the myths promoted by its opponents.

59 points from Romney, and motorbike action from Huntsman.

Like any pilgrimage site, Burning Man is less a destination than a pretext for the journey. These days, of course, flying into Reno isn’t so hard—but actually opening up to whatever Black Rock City has to offer… that journey can be arduous. If you go looking for a festival with sex and drugs and dance music, that is all you will find. But if you pause to wonder why there’s a temple in the middle of it, why people come back year after year even if they don’t do drugs, or, for that matter, how it is that the art, community, and culture of Black Rock City is constructed without a Them putting on entertainments for Us, much more can be received.

No more shaming of job creation.