On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya…
Death in the Middle East: What happens next?
American politics
11 years after 9/11
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, the Social Science Research Council invited a wide range of leading social…
Voting for an atheist?
In a recent article, Religion News Service discusses a Gallup poll survey, in which a majority of Americans said they…
President Obama’s waning religious support
In 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was able to make crucial gains among religious moderates on his way to…
American attitudes toward religious minorities
At last week's 67th annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Daniel Cox, director of the Public…
The bishops, the sisters, and religious freedom
At its March 2012 meeting, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved “Our First, Most…
Everson’s Children
Everson v. Board of Education is considered a landmark of First Amendment jurisprudence. That 1947 case marks the first time…
West’s witness
For New York Magazine, Lisa Miller profiles Cornel West, surveying the course of his academic career, personal life, and variety…
The Vatican and the “war on women religious”
The recent Vatican report on the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella organization representing roughly eighty percent of American…
Evangelicals support Romney
At The New Republic, Eg Kilgore explains why the Christian Right will overcome its apprehensions about Mitt Romney's religion.