Unless you have been completely removed from American political discourse and the news media, for the last few weeks, you have surely...

Saif-ul-Malook lives his life with two security guards and a constant fear of death. He receives threats daily and has spent weeks in the...

Senator Ted Cruz, famous for his far right ideology and disinterest in compromise, became, with a speech in a packed auditorium at...

The past two months have been especially traumatic for Europe’s approximately 1.4 million Jews. On February 15th, a gunman attacked a...

It isn’t unusual for the president’s words to be analyzed and criticized. The propensity of Americans to routinely invoke their First...

Jonathan Chait’s recent article in New York Magazine asserts that “political correctness” is the downfall of political discourse....

A Pew Research graphic illustrating the religious makeup of the 114th Congress, via the Pew Research Center. Do American politicians see...

According to the president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Europe is experiencing its worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War...

Since the College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy, the global community has been eager to see if Pope Francis,...

In a nation founded on a premise of religious freedom, politicians are struggling with a new dimension of faith: atheism. The United...

Like a funhouse mirror for American society, Fred Phelps reflected and distorted American ideals in ways that were uncomfortable and even...

The idea of religious liberty has enjoyed many roles in American society — throughout our nation’s history it has been the object of...

In 2009, a bill was introduced in the Ugandan parliament that called for the arrest of LGTBQ Ugandans and specifically targeted...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations in 1979. It has...

On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes...

By Dylan Platt When white smoke plumed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel last March, it was the unwitting signal of an international...

The jury’s still out on whether or not His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet ended his speech to a capacity crowd at the RI...