In his fight against British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi described the life cycle of successful civil disobedience: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mikey Weinstein, the 55-year-old founder of the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), likes to quote...

Christian dominionists are in high dudgeon at that most holy of government agencies, the Department of Defense. The Family Research Council says that the Pentagon's decision to rescind a speaking invitation to cleric Franklin Graham for early May's National Day of Prayer isn't mere discrimination, it rises to...

The recent resurgence of right wing violence turned particularly bizarre and creepy over the weekend.

Beginning Saturday evening, the FBI staged multiple raids across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio to arrest nine members of an apocalyptic Christian militia who were allegedly conspiring to murder police officers, carry out terrorist atrocities, and...

The recent revelations that employees of the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) accuse supervisors of widespread corruption, discrimination, and mismanagement is nothing new. Rather it's an old story made new by the botched terrorism attack of Christmas Day.

On that day, 23-year-old jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried

On Nov. 5th, Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist and self-radicalized jihadist, stepped inside the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas. Just before he allegedly opened fire on his comrades-in-arms, Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" By the time a police officer's bullet paralyzed Hasan, he had murdered 13 people--12...

Early Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama's storied night ended inside Union Station at the Eastern States Inaugural Ball, accompanied by the First Lady, Michelle Obama.

But the efforts to secure the venue, one of the busiest transportation hubs in the District, left many people out in the...