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Dozens of women drive. No arrests.

Republicans’ Islamophobic comments in Monday’s NH debate is instructive.

Don’t we in the West laugh at authoritarian states that control women’s clothes and sex lives?

Long’s case was not simply, as you suggest, a “wreck” or a car “accident,” but a case of DUI: Driving/Pastoring under the influence of unchecked power and accountability. This continues to be a historic problem with commercial celebrity preachers, and given your status and peer group, I’m sure you know this all too well.

Usually, a book about ideas is pretty straightforward. The author is saying this stuff because he believes it. With Terry Eagleton, the British Marxist literary theorist, it’s less so. Marxism, in Eagleton’s hands, is neither exactly a science, nor a practical political agenda. It emerges as essentially a vision, a gaze, a discourse—of political life transformed, of human dignity at last universalized.

How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated?

Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde was fighting with fans. Lalonde was still editing the film. The score was still being written…

In the latest diavlog in RD’s collaboration with Bloggingheads.tv, Anthea Butler and Michelle Goldberg discuss the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Christian militias, the GOP’s spiral of extremism, and more.

In what is likely a first, an Episcopal church in Cambridge that serves a primarily African-American community has blessed the union of two women—one of whom is the mayor of the city. Our correspondent was one of the officiants.

A US District Court judge has denied a motion by Proposition 8 supporters in California to vacate the ruling against the ballot measure because the judge in the case is gay.