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Getting through security with a headscarf and a lot of silver jewelry.

The glorious, glowing, full moon is shining on my head through the window over my bed. She says, “you are halfway there: halfway through the month of Ramadan!”

Secrets of a Successful Suhur (the 4 a.m. Ramadan breakfast).

At the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity of their crime. In short, we hunger for their redemption. And so, when the retributive impulse is finally satisfied, it naturally resolves itself into forgiveness. The darkness is lifted, because the evil—the dissociation from the good that inspired the crime—has been destroyed.

Atheists aren’t perfect, just not forgiven.

Marriage equality will be law by 2016.

Both the good and bad in our species come from our primate background, says primatologist Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy.

As if feminist theology didn’t exist.

House will vote on H.R. 3 tomorrow.