No, Not My America, You Mean Our America
Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.
Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.
M. Zuhdi Jasser | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
The spirit of Ramadan is a true example of how Islam can flourish under the separation of mosque and state.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
Has it become acceptable among Palestinians to wear a hat or a T-shirt praising Americans? The answer most respondents had can be summarized in two words: Barack Obama.
Stacie Krajchir | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
This high-octane bromance gathering includes a colorful cast of characters: the Governor of Guam, a judge, a pediatric dentist, an entrepreneur and their perspective brothers.
Frank Cooper III | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Americans remain an optimistic lot. Across all ages, races, sex, location and economic background, Americans are expressing a sense that their individual and collective action can and will move the world forward in a positive way.
Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.
Bill Maher | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy
New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. And before I go about demonstrating how, let me just say that ignorance has life and death consequences.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama put forward his top economic officials on Monday to try to reassure China that the U.S. will not let huge bu...
Salon | David Sirota | Posted 08.25.2009 | Business
Here's a truism: The wealthiest 1 percent have never had it so good. According to government figures, 1-percenters' share of America's total incom...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
Dealers say that automakers will save little -- if anything -- from closing outlets.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Who amongst us can say we're actually doing the hard work of being an American?
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.
Robert Fuller | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
President Obama has yet to tell us how to repair our broken institutions. But he may be doing something equally important. He may be showing us the way.
The Washington Independant | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book "Saving Freedom." DeMint told a room of ar...
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.
The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...
Michael Rowe | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
The real cost of Don't Ask, Don't Tell has always been the human one -- Barry Winchell's life, of course, beaten out of him with a baseball bat over the 4th of July weekend 10 years ago.
Spencer Green | Posted 08.03.2009 | Comedy
Focus groups show that only 66 percent of citizens hold these truths to be self-evident; 22 percent hold them to be rather ambiguous; 12 percent are undecided.
John Milewski | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Journey Into America portrays the experiences of Muslim-Americans, providing much food for thought about how we think about any designated group of Americans.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Fighting against being defined by America's bygone eras, New Muslim Cool points us toward a more complicated future.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment
America didn't win their first international soccer tournament. But sometimes winning isn't the only thing. Sometimes getting to the finals is the next step toward winning the finals.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
Frankie Martin | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment
In every country that we visited, the idea that Americans harbored negative opinions of Muslims was named as the "number one threat to the Muslim world" in surveys we distributed.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
What is it with Father's Day? And, what is the blessing and curse of being a father?
2morrowknight | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living