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Well here’s a new smear: Obama voters are just plain ignorant, civics-wise. Guess what? So is everyone else…

The Civil Rights Movement needs to be understood in its historical context…

… Driving, of course.

A response, and a clarification. Palin is not yet out of the public eye…

What kind of profundity is acceptable in our pluralistic public space? Can a public high school organize a graduation service that appeals to religious themes? Can a religiously diverse private college invite a commencement speaker representing only one of the many religious traditions represented in the room? Or, given religious diversity, should schools try to maintain an air of resolute non-religiosity?

Elizabeth Smart’s remarks set off important debate about LDS sexuality doctrine and culture.

Amid both controversy and support, women are playing a larger role in religion in Muslim countries all over the world.

Bishops accuse longtime advocacy group ACORN of political partisanship and withdraw support. Now who’s partisan?

The thwarted VP nominee is not going quietly. Indeed, she seems to believe in her own sense of personal destiny and mission.

Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.