The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, arguing to the majority-Catholic justices that doing away with it would undermine…
Who is Telling the Truth About American Religion?
Okay, I guess it’s time to write the post that I’ve been dreading for a long time because I don’t know how it’s going to be received. Be warned—this one is super nerdy and goes very deep into the weeds of…
Israel’s parliament moves toward ban on mixed-gender prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among liberal Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon be…
What If Aliens Are Real? A Thought Experiment
This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the question of whether aliens are real, and it wasn’t even in the top 15 stories of the week. The debate was over not “aliens” as…
Checks, charities and conversion classes: What the Epstein files show about Jeffrey Epstein’s Jewish world
Sometime in the early 2010s, Jeffrey Epstein walked into Dr. Steven Kaplan’s office for a root canal.
Blaming the Left for Jihadism Gets it Backwards
In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre on Dec. 14, 2025, when a father and son inspired by ISIS murdered 15 Hanukkah celebrants in Sydney, Australia, some observers—particularly on the political right—rushed to assign blame not only to the…
Latter-Day Saints Open First-Ever Temple In Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s Mormon community have a new place to worship following the opening of the first-ever temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People Who Left ‘MAGA Christianity’ Share What It Really Took To Step Away
For many Americans raised in conservative Christian environments, faith once felt like a matter of personal conviction and community — not overt political allegiance. But over the past decade, the boundary between belief and ideology has blurred.
Abortion laws show that public policy doesn’t always line up with public opinion
Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. In the United States, few issues test that idea more than abortion.
Shooting incidents unsettle Muslims as Ramadan begins
Days after the holy month of Ramadan began, shootings targeting an imam in Utah and an Islamic center in Pennsylvania have rattled Muslim Americans as they look forward to weeks in which they gather frequently and in large numbers.
Laura Loomer and other Jewish conservatives sound alarm over Tucker Carlson’s White House access
Jewish figures on the far right are increasingly expressing concerns about President Donald Trump’s handling of an antisemitism rift among the Republican party, after its instigator Tucker Carlson reportedly visited the White House for the third time in weeks on…
Music and art can save the world, if we let them
dI was in the kitchen doing dishes when the sound stopped me. Froze me in place. I went to the living room to check it out. I knew the face and the voice but not the song. So of course,…