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A close look at scripture challenges Elie Wiesel’s narcissistic new tale of exceptionalism.

For young Egyptians fighting Mubarak’s rule, the fight really wasn’t fair, so why can’t our kids stand up and address our worsening problems? Have we forgotten that our parents were, to paraphase the Bible, “slaves in America?”

Bell, the enormously popular pastor of the enormous Mars Hill Bible Church, has a new book coming out this month called Love Wins in which Bell “puts hell on trial, and his message is decidedly optimistic—eternal life doesn’t start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.” This description launched a frenzy of reactions within the evangelical community.

Will Americans wake up to find that the robust religious freedom they enjoyed back at the beginning of the 21st century had become extinct before anyone even noticed it was endangered?

Mark Salzman’s latest work tells the story of an optimistic, but highly anxious, seeker whose sense of enthusiasm and adventure dried up when the chaotic monotony of domestic life intervened with a vengeance.

Elie Wiesel lost millions to Madoff because, he says, “we thought he was God.”

Influential conservative journal blames society’s woes on contraception.

100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, a disaster that claimed the lives of 146 workers and galvanized the labor movement, public workers in Wisconsin and around the country are standing up to the largest-scale attack on American workers in recent history. Using the economic crisis as a pretext, and with financing from billionaire businessmen, Governor Scott Walker and others are trying to strip public unions of their collective bargaining power. This debate is not about trying to balance state budgets. This debate is about the future of American labor.

“Tell me what religion looks like.” “ This is what religion looks like!” So chanted the 75 religious leaders who marched into Wisconsin’s Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, February 22, in support of the state workers who are opposing Governor…

A floor speech and the future of the Democrats’ abortion politics.