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The scapegoating of immigrants is a global problem, one that flares up in different countries, depending on local circumstances. We must not imagine that the United States is immune to such violence.

From traders rubbing the testicles of the New York Stock Exchange’s Golden Bull to the pantheon of saints, soothsayers and heretics who haunt it, the Free Market has earned its status as a cult.

For a good feminist “lesbian” must always trump “gay” in the alphabet soup of acceptance and tolerance.

Unlike earlier technologies the ultra-personal iPhone will enable us all to become religious dilettantes privately dabbling with a few taps of the screen: the evangelical teen can recite the rosary, the Catholic can hear prayers in Hebrew, and a Jew can get a mantra. Were the Pontiff aware that the door swung both ways would he still go 2.0?

In a debate in which the bar was set so low as to be subterranean, values-related issues were almost entirely ignored.

The roots of the economic crisis tap directly into a movement within American fundamentalism. Much has been made of Palin’s Pentecostalism but her links to The Family go unnoticed.

In a new documentary, Bill Maher tries his darndest to convince viewers to abandon religion. Is he just preaching to the choir or will it start a valuable conversation?

His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.

Friday’s historic debate in Mississippi showcased the McCain campaign’s election strategy: Talk down to Obama and play to the racist element in the Republican Party.

While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn’t end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.