View image | gettyimages.com 3,500 couples marry in a Unification Church ceremony in South Korea, just as God always intended. No Adam and Steves here, you can bet on that.
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Netanyahu’s Campaign Road Show Comes to Washington
The Israeli prime minister didn’t offer an Iran policy to Congress. He offered dread and overconfidence to Israel voters.
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Christie Blusters His Way Through CPAC Appearance
Posted by guest-blogger Rachel M. Cohen. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasn’t going to let something like record-low approval ratings get him down as he took the stage Thursday afternoon at CPAC’s annual gathering in National Harbor, Maryland. Exuding that Sopranos-style confidence that’s earned him notoriety, Christie, sitting on the CPAC stage for an interview […]
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How Mindfulness Can Transform Movements for Racial Justice and Equality
While Black History Month is rightly steeped in regard for the struggles and triumphs of the past, consciousness in the present is what will move us forward through the other 11 months of the year.
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Chapel Hill Murders Are About More Than a Parking Dispute
Fights over space—whether in subways or suburban neighborhoods—are more often contests about privilege.
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Obama and the Fundamentalists
President Obama appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, and as always happens, conservatives were terribly offended and outraged at his remarks. Why? It’s because Obama doesn’t share their political and religious fundamentalism. Let’s look at the passage that had them up in arms this time: So how do we, as people of faith, reconcile […]
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Why We Need to Know More About All the Presidential Candidates’ Religious Beliefs
View image | gettyimages.com Among the things we’re learning about the New Romney, concerned for the downtrodden and bristling with authenticity, is that he’ll be talking more about his religion. I think this is a fine thing for him to do-in fact, I want to hear from other candidates about the subject, too. Not only […]
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Bobby Jindal’s Doomed Crusade
Flickr/Gage Skidmore Bobby Jindal has been something of an odd man out in the emerging 2016 presidential race. While people like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio (not to mention Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney) get headlines for their every contemplation of the race, Jindal is largely ignored by the national media. Yet for years he […]
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Jindal’s Prayer Rally Brings Together ‘Prophets,’ Bigots and Right-Wing Activists
Once hailed as the GOP’s top intellectual and reformer, the Louisiana governor headlined a gathering organized and sponsored by some of the most extreme figures in the party.
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Terrorists Will Never Limit Our Free Speech, But Government Can
“Lone wolf” nutjobs and small bands of extremists can’t threaten our values, but our own institutions can.
