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What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children ? It was really my daughter’s questions that got me started with this. Sheila was three years old…

International Human Rights Day is Thursday, December 10. On Saturday, December 12, OutRight International (formerly IGLHRC) is holding a global activist gathering in New York, OutSummit: Pushing the…

Day One If you are someone who thinks it is already too late to keep the climate’s temperature from going significantly above 2 degrees Celsius (about 4 degrees Fahrenheit), COP21 is the place for you…

Capital in the Twenty-First Century made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the…

We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day, The Washington Post reported last August. But the mounting frustration of chasing solutions is the good news. The Daily News piece “God Isn’t…

Last night, as news of the shootings in San Bernardino was being digested, the Twitterverse erupted in debate over the proper response. Some commentators—most notably Igor Volsky of the liberal think…

Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.

“When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.”

Apparently finding a way to bend church rules to allow divorced Catholics to receive communion is a more pressing concern for Pope Francis than the life-and-death issue of AIDS. The pope who has bent…

Since the Paris attacks, the right’s response to refugees crisis has been martial: we’re at war; keep them out. The counter-response is that we’re morally bound to admit and help them. But what…