Andrew Sullivan

Do Not Underestimate the Power of Obama's Gay Marriage Support

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Lgbt, United States, Obama, Republicans, Andrew Sullivan, LGBT Rights, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ben Cohen

By personally endorsing gay marriage, Obama is planting himself firmly on one side of the Republican invented battle ground -- and he may not do well out of it.

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Biblical Literalism, Secularism And American Politics

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Left Behind, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, Secularism, Rick Santorum, James Dobson, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Biblical Literalism, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Religion News
Christopher Lane

The atrophying of our national understanding of secularism has dramatic implications for the country's well-being, including, most fundamentally, its ability to separate politics from religion.

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Faith in Crisis and Easter Hope

Rev. Larry Hollon | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Christianity, Easter, Faith, E.J. Dionne, Faith and Politics, Andrew Sullivan, United Methodists, Barna Group, Religion News
Rev. Larry Hollon

At the root of this yearning is a search for the holy. We are asking why we are here and how we find meaning and purpose. These are faith questions.

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A Resurrected Christianity?

Diana Butler Bass | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Emergent, Church, Christianity, Christianity in Crisis, Christianity and Politics, Andrew Sullivan, Mainline Christianity, Religion News
Diana Butler Bass

The crisis is real. Like Andrew Sullivan, I feel its sad and frustrating urgency. But I also know the hope of possibility, for every crisis bears the promise of something new.

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Andrew Sullivan's Altar Call In Newsweek

Newsweek | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Follow Jesus, Christianity, American Christianity, Andrew Sullivan, Jesus, Evangelicals, Religion News

If you go to the second floor of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., you’ll find a small room containing an 18th-century Bi...

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WATCH: There Were How Few Women At The Contraception Rule Hearings?

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Issa, Ann Marie Buer, Andrew Sullivan, Birth Control, Video, Darrell Issa, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jena Mcgregor, Contraception Rule, Obama Contraception Rule, Carolyn Maloney, Women News

How did hearings on whether religious organizations should be required to offer women contraception end up taking place with so few women in the room?...

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GOP Construction of a Fictional "Obama" Has Taken a Turn to the Absurd

Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Recalls, Republican Lies, Swift Boat, Andrew Sullivan, Somali Pirates, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ohio Polls, Joe Biden, Seal Team Six, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Osama Bin Laden, New Rule, Gun Laws, Bill Maher, Drone Attacks, Sean Hannity, Republicans, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

Even as commentators start to note the GOP effort to create a fictional Barack Obama, it looks like Republicans have decided to double down on the stupid. That is, they have strayed from plausible lies -- lies that, to the uninformed, could feel true -- to absurd ones.

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Michael Calderone

Palin Writes Newsweek Piece After Blasting Magazine

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.05.2012

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NEW YORK -- When Newsweek published Andrew Sullivan's cover story three weeks ago with the provocative headline "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?," fo...

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How Fox News Is Destroying the Republican Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Andrew Sullivan, Rush Limbaugh, Media Matters for America, David Frum, Republican National Committee, Republican Party, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Republicans, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It's becoming increasingly clear that Fox's programming and the radical, fear-based agenda it's setting for Republicans is now doing lasting damage to the Grand Old Party.

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Progressives, Obamabots and a Realistic Evaluation of the President

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.20.2012

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Bob Cesca

Should we undermine the most progressive-minded president in at least a generation and will his failure help or hurt the progressive cause? Will his failure pave the way for a more progressive president or a less progressive president? This is the debate on the left.

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Gretchen Carlson And Jerry Springer's Heated Clash About Fox News

Posted 01.18.2012

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Talk show host and former Mayor of Cincinnati Jerry Springer appeared on Fox News' morning show on Wednesday, and got into a tiff with "Fox and Friend...

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WATCH: Megyn Kelly Trashes Newsweek, Writer Over Obama Story

Posted 03.18.2012

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Fox News' Megyn Kelly tore into Newsweek's Andrew Sullivan on Tuesday, criticizing him and the magazine for his controversial story about President Ob...

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Sarah Palin Blasts Newsweek For Running Story By Andrew Sullivan

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2012

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Sarah Palin took to Twitter early Tuesday to give Newsweek a piece of her mind. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate seemed t...

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Is Tim Tebow A Hypocrite?

Skye Jethani | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Tebow, Christianity, Prayer, Tim Tebow, Jesus, Andrew Sullivan, Football, Teachings of Jesus, Slidepollajax, Religion News
Skye Jethani

Tim Tebow's behavior on the field does raise important questions about prayer and how Christians ought to practice it.

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Andrew Sullivan To Roger Ailes: 'F-ck You'

Posted 02.13.2012

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Blogger Andrew Sullivan capped a lengthy endorsement of Ron Paul on Wednesday with a brief, four-letter message for Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. Sulli...

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Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic Error

Ken Blackwell | Posted 11.10.2011

Read More: Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ken Blackwell

Mr. Obama has bowed to desert despots and apologized the world over for American Exceptionalism, and yet we still see America's image abroad suffering.

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Is Anders Breivik A 'Christian Terrorist'?

Posted 09.25.2011

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By David Gibson c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) The mass murders in Oslo have raised a host of agonizing questions, but few have such an ancie...

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Andrew Sullivan Departure Doesn't Hurt Atlantic's Traffic

nymag.com | By: | Posted 07.03.2011

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Even though it had produced up to a quarter of the site's traffic, after Andrew Sullivan and his blog decamped for the Daily Beast/Newsweek, TheAtlant...

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Why 'Do You Believe in God?' Is The Wrong Question To Ask

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Connection, Religion, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Harris, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Kindness, God, Justice, Belief, Martin Buber, Dialogue, Spirituality, Religion News
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

When you're asking a question with an expected answer, and that answer is the opposite of what you hope it will be, there's no constructive dialogue. It simply comes off as a judgmental attack.

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Whose Gandhi Is He Anyway?

Sandip Roy | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Bisexuality, Homosexuality, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, Andrew Sullivan, Books News
Sandip Roy

I think instead of fighting over Gandhi's "Vaseline and cotton wool memories," India should just levy a Gandhi-tax.

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Andrew Sullivan Leaving The Atlantic

Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Atlantic and taking his blog, The Daily Dish, with him. The blog will find a new home on The Daily Beast in April, and ...

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Sarah Palin -- What a Coward

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kimberly Krautter

Simply stated, if you can't face questions over your own rhetoric and behavior, you are a coward.

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Public Mycasting System

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, American Narrative, Interactivity, Connectivity, Nouriel Roubini, Content, Andrew Sullivan, The Kardashians, Ivanka Trump, Trendspotting, Novels, Trends, Self-Expression, Storytelling, Sincerity, Mycasting, Blogging, Technology News
Marian Salzman

From mommies' to men's blogs, from food diaries to fanzines, the universal-access realm of online is a new storytellers' paradise with handy short installments as the universal language.

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The Top Ten Good Men Politicians

Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cory Booker, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Sullivan, Ron Paul, Good Men, Al Franken, Mitch Daniels, top10 Good Politicians, Bernie Sanders, Lindsey Graham, Joe Biden, Jeff Flake, Thomas Frank, David Brooks, Politics, Chris Wallace, John Podesta, Ethics, Paul Ryan, Reihan Salam, Carl Levin, Richard Lugar, Joan Walsh, Politics News
Tom Matlack

At the Good Men Project Magazine, we want to believe that there are a few good men in politics. We need to believe it. So we spent the last few months looking for them.

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Friday Talking Points [142] -- Republican "Doggy-Doo"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

We're going to start off with a warning this week: this preamble section is going to be mostly shameless self-promotion and one cheap inside joke. If...

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