In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?” ...

In recent weeks, as the reality of Donald Trump’s nomination has continued to settle, op-eds have begun to circulate on social media claiming to make a “moral” case for his candidacy. These are ...

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San ...

Congratulations, North Carolina. You have become the 33rd state to write discrimination into your constitution, ensuring that gay men and lesbian women cannot enter into this esteemed institution you ...

As growing numbers of career politicians and conservative pundits scramble to distance themselves from the ever-imploding presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, the foul-mouthed businessman still ...

Yesterday a federal jury in Burlington, Vermont, convicted Pastor Kenneth Miller of helping Lisa Miller (no relation) flee with her daughter to Nicaragua to avoid complying with court orders granting ...

I was not surprised by recent revelations of the National Organization for Marriage’s strategy to drive a wedge between LGBTIQ people and African Americans—and to urge Latinos to avoid being ...

Fox News’s The Five features five right-wing political commentators sitting in a circle and discussing the news of the day. It’s sort of like every other show on Fox, except there are five people in ...

Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of transgender individuals. One of those authorities was the World Health Organization. The other was ...

When I decided to attend Wheaton College two years ago, I was expecting a haven of like-minded young Christian scholars. But it turns out—while Wheaton is a special and loved place—it still has a lot ...

Reuters reported this morning that the Italian branch of Anonymous, those hackers best known for attacks on Scientology, decided to send a message to the Catholic Church by shutting down the official ...

Sam Harris is on the defensive. The front man at the nexus of new atheism and neuroscience, under attack by civil libertarians and political analysts alike for his flowery Islamophobic rhetoric (“the ...