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Some protesters are calling for the firing of tenured Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo. Is that the right thing to do?
You can either trust Rush Limbaugh or look at past awards for clues.
The Olympics don’t always leave their host cities better off than before. So why does Chicago want the games?
The fact is that we are already committed to war in Afghanistan; we are already in. And while many of us may want to get out, the question is how?
In a recent Christian Century feature presenting the reading habits of some “expert observers of the religion scene,” one expert added a curious disclaimer to his mention of RD.
Into the often childish and bloody conflict between religion and science comes a humble suggestion: “Art is the New Religion.”
We have become used to the protections intended for real people being extended instead to corporations. How this happened, and what it means for the possibility of health care reform.
It’s a term that’s been linked to socialized medicine, and government control of health care...but what does “co-op” really mean?
Ruth Madoff, the disgraced financier's wife, loved the theater, and a particularly lavish version of the American Dream. But her sleep, and ours, is not so easy now.
The debate about health has turned into a debate about death. Why has our heath care debate shifted so easily and so quickly into a fright-fest concerned with the care we owe to the dead and dying?
A look at Bush’s gambling habit is instructive as Obama works to fix the problems of his predecessor with a team cut from the Bush administration cloth.
What do blue jeans have to do with the contradictions and complexities of Utopia and revolution?
Over the past few decades a form of “tolerance” has been achieved in many parts of American life. What sort of achievement is this?
Kathryn Lofton's recent feature asked: How should one look at the old wedding photos after utter collapse? So what about Madoff? How should one see these pictures from a prison cell?
Maybe it's too much to compare Bernie Madoff to Hitler—but there are some peculiar parallels.
Megachurch pastor Rod Parsley took issue with a recent article on RD on biblical and ethical challenges to the death penalty. Its author responds...
Highlights of a literary night in Rome: “You know what will happen,” she exclaims. “They’ll burn the books… before the furniture… before the clothes… they’ll burn all the books… They always do.”
Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Hamlet, Abu Ghraib, and why the Eucharist involves the live audience in a way that Mel Gibson’s The Passion never could.
Specters abound in the contemporary world, and they are every bit as terrifying as Hamlet's were. Think of the invisible, ghostly threat of "terror"; think of the terrifying specter of one's life's savings vanished in an instant.
Arlen Specter is hardly the first Republican moderate to leave his party after the bullying conducted in the name of policy and GOP purity.
Why is the highest journalistic award handing out prizes for reporting on the sexual dalliances of powerful pols? And we wonder why papers are closing their doors?
It's difficult to believe that Newt's role as critic of Obama's foreign policy has as much to do with patriotism as with raw political ambition.
Obama ran on a platform of change, but he’s been unwilling to mess with the status quo on either war or the economy. As the crisis deepens, the language of psychology trumps the language of faith, even on Main Street.
Having put himself in the spotlight the president ought to be aware of the history of the polity’s relationship to tragedy and comedy. Rise and fall.
Despite the fact that the AIG bonuses represent only a fraction of the crisis there's more to economics than number crunching.