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Despite historic prejudices, Romney ahead in SC.

Soon will be a campaign trail issue for the GOP.

MD legislature passes marriage equality, but whither the voters, come this Fall’s referendum?

“Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exlaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate.

The discredited practice of “ex-gay therapy” is at the center of today’s culture wars, with the Christian Right seeking to expand its reach to include transgender people and California banning the so…

In Yiddish, Jews reacted to the stories wafting out of Holy Week churches with a mixture of fear and derision. The Christian savior was regularly referred to by playful nicknames like Yoizel, Getzel, and most creatively Yoshke Pandre. The layers of meaning in this last name are astonishing: Using the diminutive suffix “–ke,” Yoshke translates as “Little Joe.”

What inspired you to write Spider in a Tree? I live in Northampton, Massachusetts, across the road from a beautiful cemetery. It’s quiet there, with lots of big, generous trees and many old…

Encouraging women to claim power through humiliation.

Flamboyant and controversial, scandal engulfed him to the end.

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