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Conspiracy theories ebb and flow in waves associated with how confident people feel about their social environments. When times are hard and unemployment rates are high, individuals get creative in where they look for explanations. It is no accident that talented, powerful, popular, and rich African American male rappers, along with female artists, are being targeted by these claims.

Two out of three Americans believe that gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship. How is it that a community claiming to possess truth and love ends up perpetuating these problems?

First question: does Brat intend to legislate his religious beliefs if elected? Second question: what are those beliefs exactly?

Even after talks with Jewish leaders, Beck persists in promoting anti-Semitic tropes.

To the moderate political classes calling for more compromise…

Humanity may be a mystery, but what about the human who virtually enters a spec of dust and is able to learn the mysteries of dustness? Doesn’t this kind of leap require us to adopt a kind of awe and reverence for the mysteries outside the human as well?

Two very different films about what happens after we die are in the theaters right now: Clint Eastwood’s gentle Hereafter and Gaspar Noe’s raw, hallucinatory Enter the Void. While covering the same cosmological territory, the films couldn’t be more different, stylistically, thematically, and religiously.

Why are gays increasingly voting against their interests?

In recent years, country songwriters have seemed to be virtually required to produce jingoistic populist anthems. But the association of country and the political right is only a recent invention.

22-year-old Trevor Case has been sitting in a Nebraska jail since late last month for allegedly waterboarding his girlfriend. According to police reports, after accusing Danielle Stallworth of…