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Whose ‘India First’?

By Ann Neumann | May 30, 2014

Baba Ramdev’s incarnation of history in the recent election.

Sanofi Pasteur, via Flickr

Protecting India’s Children

By Kavita Ramdya | May 7, 2013

New Delhi’s Police Commissioner has a role, whether he admits it or not.

by Richard Elzey, via Flickr

Public Education–An Expendable Farce?

By Celina Su | March 4, 2013

The real story of the BDS episode at CUNY is the aftermath.

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Parting Shot

By Lisa Levy | June 22, 2012

O Lord, grant me impatience.

Occupy Catholics art by KtB's Communicant, Mary Valle.

No Revolution Without Religion

By Nathan Schneider | April 30, 2012

Why the Occupy movement needs to Occupy faith.

Photo courtesy of Bradford Daly.

Strangers In The Bible Belt and The Holy Land

By Ashley Makar | November 7, 2011

Immigration legislation in Alabama and Israel.

Bridge in Cairo, January 28, 2011. Photo by Timothy Kaldas.

Mercy

By Ashley Makar | February 14, 2011

Hope, apprehension, and the revolution in Egypt.

"Empire State Building" by Johan Hansson, via Flickr.

Whose College?

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald | January 18, 2011

God, money, and power beneath the Empire State Building.

Photo of Ofelia Rivas by Jason Jacks for The Sierra Club.

Today Needs Another Name

By Quince Mountain | October 11, 2010

This Columbus Day, the spirit of 1492 is alive and well.

By F. Opper in Puck, 1881.

Yes, Mr. Kristof, This Is America

By Garrett Baer | September 20, 2010

Why are we so surprised by our own bigotry?

"Tea Party tax day protest 2010" by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr.

Outside a Tea Party

By JoAnn Wypijewski | June 21, 2010

Mongrel politics and an American mind.

"'Western Wall' Jerusalem, Israel" by Minamie's Photo, via Flickr.

Next Year In Jerusalem?

By Rachel Leven | March 31, 2010

It’s not my holy land.

“Romero is always present,” says Ana Grande, 30. A 2005 mural by J. Reyes Yasbek entitled Verdad y Justicia (“Truth and Justice”) attests to Romero’s continuing legacy in the struggle for social justice. All photos by Richard Amesbury.

Presente

By Richard Amesbury and Andrew Kirschman, S.J. | March 22, 2010

Archbishop Romero’s legacy survives in El Salvador.

Montana Plate by Spappy.joneS

Stupaking the States

By Mark Bergen | March 18, 2010

The latest twists and turns of the abortion debate.

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Who’s Amish Now?

By Ann Neumann | January 21, 2010

Is avoiding the health care mandate worth fastening your clothes with straight pins?

August 31, 2005, from space.

The Last Nail

By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou | August 28, 2009

God and democracy four years after Hurricane Katrina.

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God or Country

By Ann Neumann | August 6, 2009

A good, religiously tolerant nation is hard to find.

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Jesus Plus Nothing, Minus Somalia

By Jeff Sharlet | July 13, 2009

How Christian fundamentalism helped turn Somalia into the next staging ground for Islamic radicalism.