I've commented more than once on the religion reporting of Barbara Bradley Hagerty - her intense and less-then-honest reports on John Kerry's Catholicism, for example, and her connections to the Read More...

When I originally reported on Disney's refusal to allow subsidiary Miramax to distribute Michael Moore's new film that is critical of the Bush administration and it's connections to the Saudi Read More...

The Washington Times, a newspaper that openly shills for the Christian Right, has made its opinion about gay marriages in Massachusetts known by insisting on putting marriage in scare quotes Read More...

It's not hard to find someone claiming that the media in the United States leans heavily towards the left - but while such a claim may be true in some Read More...

A few social and religious conservatives are starting to figure out that the battle over gay marriage is basically lost. They might delay the acceptance of same-sex marriages for a Read More...

Selected here are ten of the best books reviewed during the year 2003. It was difficult to pick just ten, there were so many good books from the past year, Read More...

There are a fair number of gay Republicans. Why? I don't know. I can certainly understand a person being gay and favoring fiscal or social conservatism, but the fact of Read More...

There is a lot of attention paid to John Kerry's religious habits: where he goes to church, when he goes to church, and whether he receives communion or not. Is Read More...

May 21, 1978: Egyptian voters approved of President Anwar Sadat's proposal to place curbs on organized opposition to his government.

There are a lot of church groups that don't want to have to submit to any sort of government supervision or control over their activities. When those activities are religious, Read More...

Every year there are debates over the place of prayers and other religious rituals during graduation ceremonies at public schools. Some people's religion is so important to them that they Read More...

Recently Received: From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, by Bernard Lewis. Publisher: Oxford University Press. As one of the leading Western scholars on the Middle East, Bernard Lewis has Read More...