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No matter whose name eventually emerges from the fog of smoke over the Vatican this week, it’s safe to say his face will soon grace the cover of Time. Just under the wire for Holy Week, the traditional season of religiously themed magazine covers.

“As soon as you say ‘non-theists,’ it’s a negative thing. We should call ourselves ‘people believers.’ We believe in the common sense and the good will of people.”

After decades of right-wing religious domination, America faces a moment of truth not unlike the Apollo 8 astronauts faced on their first trip around the moon.

The latest work to contend with the brutality of Jonestown begs the question: why are we still reliving this tragedy nearly 35 years later?

Powell and Obama share a perspective, born of an experience, that the rest of us should heed well: the deployment of religion in the cause of race- or other-baiting is an especially dangerous game.

When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?

A round-by-round analysis of the final debate. McCain had to score a knockout, and Obama had to stay off the ropes…how did they do?

Australian medium Blossom Goodchild wants to distract us from our problems with a prophecy that cosmic beings are going to arrive on October 14…

Two films. Two Agendas: Obsession, the Islamophobic propaganda DVD inserted into the nation’s newspapers in the weeks before the elections, and the new comedy-doc, Allah Made Me Funny.

Is Sarah Palin familiar with the US Constitution? It’s unclear from her excited anticipation of her vice presidential role as ruler of the Senate.