Progressives are too easily taken in by talk of climate change and capitalism.
Religion
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What Some Black Church Leaders Have Wrong About Gay Marriage — and Civil Rights
From Stonewall to Black Lives Matter, the African American LGBT community has always been on the forefront of fights for equality.
Posted inWorking in America
Conscience and the Culture Wars
Conservatives say marriage equality and health-care laws threaten their religious freedom. Should they be exempt?
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Piety and Politics in America
The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding. Â
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How Changes In Americans’ Religious Views Are Cornering the GOP
View image | gettyimages.com Just yesterday, I wrote a critical post about Jeb Bush’s recent speech at Liberty University in which he essentially made a case for Christianity as the greatest of all religions (“Consider a whole alternative universe of power without restraint, conflict without reconciliation, oppression without deliverance, corruption without reformation, tragedy without renewal, […]
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A Radical Pope
Francis has challenged the Catholic Church. How much can he change it?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Mother’s Day, For Real
In the real America, the lives of women—especially black and brown women—are no bed of roses.
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Netanyahu’s New Government: Weak, Extreme, and Unpredictable
To stay in power, Israel’s prime minister created a government even further right than he is.
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The West’s Regard for Charlie Hedbo Victims Not Extended to African Targets of Extremist Violence
Massacres in Nigeria and Garissa, Kenya, did not draw nearly as much worldwide attention or grief as Charlie Hebdo. What does that say about how we value African lives?
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The Junior Justice
Elena Kagan is rewriting the role of a Supreme Court justice in American democracy.
