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At a mini-mall Starbucks in southern San Diego, I’m staring into my coffee and wondering whether coming here was such a good idea. I have written about the most emotionally fraught chapters of Jim…

I’ve said it before, and if you’re reading this, you’ve very likely heard the same thing darkly muttered among liberals and progressives if you haven’t said it yourself: I never thought anything could…

Let’s look at the bad news from this Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) tracking survey first: despite remarkably lousy-but-stable favorability numbers (41% approve, 55% disapprove), Pres…

“Accidental Activist” paints conservative Christians as the victims of an intolerant cabal of “homosexual” activists and liberal co-conspirators.

Media coverage of the trials has become enormous boon for certain white supremacists. Nowhere is this more evident—and disturbing—than in the case of Frank Taaffe.

On Twitter, journalists are popularizing the “#SochiProblems” hashtag, documenting shoddy and ill-prepared accommodations. Yet the bigger concerns have more to do with human rights than broken doorknobs.

As an Asian-American, I’m often cast as an ally rather than a stakeholder when I show up at Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. It’s awkward to be treated like I, as a person of color, have no dog in the fight for racial equity.

As the Medicaid expansion adds successes such as the ones in California and Massachusetts, the Far Right and conservatives will continue to promote ideological ballast to bog down these successes.