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On September 26, an event that the national media will surely depict as a new Scopes trial is scheduled to begin. Hearings will commence in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Dover, Pennsylvania, school district over its decision to introduce “Intelligent Design,” or ID, into its biology curriculum. […]

Finished with their Sunday morning of studying the Koran, the dozens of young boys in the Muslim Center in east London raced to put their shoes back on. Talking excitedly, they filed upstairs to spend the rest of the afternoon playing Arabic board games and Ping-Pong. Three days earlier, terrorist bombs had ripped open three […]

Time to Take Our Faith Back Jim Wallis “Religion does not have a monopoly on morality.” I’ve made that statement virtually every night on the tour for my recent book, God’s Politics. We’ve been holding town meetings disguised as book signings; 56 cities over 20 weeks during the spring and summer, and the watchword has […]

Europe is in shambles: France sleepwalking, Germany in a tailspin, the euro falling, the left in disarray. Now, just weeks after the defeat in France and Holland of the innovative new treaty that was supposed to usher in a new constitutional era for an enlarged Europe of 25 nations, terrorist bombings in London are reinforcing […]

As we go to press, we don’t know the name of President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee or nominees. But it is clear that he will eventually get two, and maybe more — enough to lead a radical transformation of constitutional law. The challenge is to keep this point at the center of the debate and […]

On the evening of May 23, a bipartisan group of 14 senators emerged from a series of semi-secret meetings to announce that they’d brokered a deal ending the standoff over Democratic filibusters of several of President Bush’s judicial nominees. The group’s seven Republicans agreed to vote against the “nuclear option” and to kill the nominations […]

If it’s true that conventional wisdom, like quick-dry cement, usually hardens within 48 hours of an event — think of the January 1998 Lewinsky revelations and the immediate pronouncements that the matter would lead to impeachment — the reactions to the July 7 London terrorist bombings provide a case study in how the right seeks […]

There is little room left to stand in the Atlanta nightclub Eleven50, a cavernous former opera house that sports an outsized mirror ball and the thumping electronic dance music favored by the hip, scantily clad, under-35 set. But on this humid weeknight in early June, the crowd is decidedly unhip, mostly well past its fourth […]

From the very beginning, the white house propaganda assault against former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a longtime officer in the CIA, looked like the work of Karl Rove. The malicious leaks against the Wilsons — which have led to the appointment of a special prosecutor and the imprisonment […]