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At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.

Otherwise you might as well send a message to al-Qaeda entitled “You’ve won.”

A birther group sees a “cover-up” in the words of an NPR employee, but Jon Stewart will set the record straight.

Perhaps the second time’s a charm for Harold Camping.

Religion and money still exert a huge force on politics.

The top films for 2010—especially those up for this Sunday’s awards—leave most of the species-specific questions behind. Instead this year’s crop reflects anxieties (as well as promises) about who we are and who we might be becoming in and as humans, in our own skins—never mind the “prawns” or “Na’vi.” Questions provoked by this year’s films include those concerning the nature of our selves in connection and collision with our families, our larger social institutional entanglements, and our own bodies. The other key theme, effecting each of the others, had to do with the ways new media technology is inserting itself into our intimate lives, and changing our identities, both public and private.

Father said son turned bad by converting to Islam, but investigation reveals otherwise.

Wisconsin groups take a stand against union-busting and drastic cutbacks in social services.