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A/V Booth: Olberman Turns the Tables on Palin

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

A/V Booth: Palin Gets De-Witched

A/V Booth: Debate Preview: Biden and Palin Answer ‘Vice Presidential Questions’

A/V Booth: ‘God Is Invading Alaska’

Reports: Robert Fisk: ‘The Middle East Is Not a Complex Place’

Reports: In Defense of Elitism

Cartoons: Gratuitous Hegemony

Ear to the Ground: Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and ‘Mediocrity’

Reports: Culture-War Ads Coming Your Way

Reports: Reality Catches Up to the Free Market

Cartoons: Fun With John and Sarah

Reports: For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World

Arts and Culture: Satirist Finds the Pope Is Off-Limits

Ear to the Ground: McCain Camp Assails Book-Banning Report as a ‘Smear’

Cartoons: Bible Thumper

Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

Cartoons: Baby Mama

A/V Booth: Who Invited God to the DNC?

Ear to the Ground: Not a Fan

Reports: Faith, Abortion and the Election

Reports: They Don’t Make Evangelicals Like They Used To

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Pilgrim Stampede Kills 140

Reports: A Parting Gift to the Religious Right

Arts and Culture: Nikki Keddie on Iran

Cartoons: Pope Rejects Consumer Culture

Ear to the Ground: South Africa Prepares for World Cup, Prostitution

Ear to the Ground: Lollipops, Flies and Veils: A Love Story

Reports: Obama’s Leap of Faith

Ear to the Ground: Obama Heads to the Right

Arts and Culture: The Gospel According to … the Boss?

Reports: This Summer’s Trilogy of Truth

Reports: Inventing a Country-Club Muslim Marxist

Ear to the Ground: Muslim Americans Losing Patience With Obama

A/V Booth: Colbert on Obama’s Church Drama

Reports: Using Communion as a Weapon

Ear to the Ground: Obama Parts Ways With Church

Cartoons: The Creation

Ear to the Ground: Free Gun With Purchase

Ear to the Ground: Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville

Ear to the Ground: McCain Rejects Hagee

Reports: Bush’s Commitment Problem

Ear to the Ground: Introducing Our Deity of Unspecified Gender

Cartoons: God and Gay Marriage

Reports: Destroying a Village of Pedophilia

Ear to the Ground: We May Not Be Alone, Says Vatican

Ear to the Ground: GodTube Cashes In

Reports: Render Unto Darwin That Which Is Darwin’s

Cartoons: Wright Up Your Alley

Reports: The Nonsense Gap

Reports: Church, State and Campaign ’08

Cartoons: Only Half-Wright

Reports: Why Celebrate Rev. Wrong?

Reports: I’ve Had It With Rev. Wright

A/V Booth: Rev. Wright and the Press

Reports: Is Pennsylvania Ready for a Black President?

A/V Booth: Rev. Wright Speaks

Reports: The Left Has Lost Its Way

Reports: Benedict’s Discomforting Message

Reports: Whose Elitism Is Worse?

Reports: Marie Cocco on Bitterness

Cartoons: Pope at the Pump

Reports: Blame It on the Media

Ear to the Ground: McCain Piles On in ‘Bitter’ War of Words

A/V Booth: New Clinton Ad Jumps on Obama’s Remarks

Reports: Just a Regular Gal

Reports: The ‘Bitter’ Battle

Ear to the Ground: Coming to America

A/V Booth: Bill Maher vs. the Pope

Arts and Culture: Outrage Over Last Supper Orgy Image Rattles Vienna Museum

Arts and Culture: Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro

Reports: On Secular Fundamentalism

Reports: Is Wright Right About Racism?

Ear to the Ground: Rev. Wright Can’t Catch a Break

Cartoons: Easter

Arts and Culture: Anthony Heilbut on MaryBeth Hamilton’s ‘In Search of the Blues’

Reports: On His Own Terms

Ear to the Ground: Saudi Arabia Thinks Big

Reports: Too Big to Fail

Reports: The Two McCains

Ear to the Ground: News Flash: Obama, Clinton Claim Christian Faith

Reports: McCain’s Very Own Farrakhan

Reports: Shopping the Spiritual Mall

A/V Booth: Michael Moore Gets Religion Against Hillary

Cartoons: Metamorphosis

Cartoons: Prayers Will Be Answered in the Order They Are Received

Reports: God and John McCain

Arts and Culture: Carla Kaplan on ‘The Mitfords’

Reports: An Enabling Virtue

Reports: The Evangelical Rebellion

A/V Booth: Ron Paul Doesn’t Accept Evolution

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on Mark Lilla’s ‘The Stillborn God’

Reports: Romney’s Religious Dodge

Reports: Huckabee Doesn’t Cut It

Reports: Misguided Mercy

Ear to the Ground: Huckabee’s Sermons Off Limits

Cartoons: Religious Wear (and Tear)

Reports: A Bumpy Detour

Reports: Romney’s Walk on a Tightrope

Ear to the Ground: Romney Woos Wary Voters With Faith-Based Appeal

Ear to the Ground: A Little Friendly Advice From One Mormon to Another

A/V Booth: Blair’s Closeted Christianity

Reports: The Cancer From Within

A/V Booth: Selective Charity

Reports: Moral Minority

Reports: On the Eve of Destruction

Ear to the Ground: Finding God in the Brain

Ear to the Ground: McCain: ‘Constitution Established a Christian Nation’

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: ‘We’re Not the Crazy Ones’

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

A/V Booth: Bill Maher on Bush’s Missionary Zeal

A/V Booth: Send In the Clergy!

Ear to the Ground: Political Danger in Turkey

Ear to the Ground: Obama Defends Religion Remarks

Bazaar: The End of Faith

Bazaar: Letter to a Christian Nation

Bazaar: Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?

Bazaar: What’s God Got to Do With the American Experiment?: Essays on Religion and Politics

Bazaar: Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning

Bazaar: One Electorate Under God?: A Dialogue on Religion and American Politics

Bazaar: Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi’ite Islam

Reports: Phony Piety on the Far Right

Reports: Mike Jones on Ted Haggard and Hypocrisy

Truthdig Podcast: Mike Jones on Ted Haggard and Hypocrisy

Ear to the Ground: Plot Against Gay Pride March in Israel Alleged

Cartoons: Living Up to the Hate

Ear to the Ground: Thou Shalt Not Exceed the Speed Limit

A/V Booth: Religion, Politics and the End of the World

Ear to the Ground: Sony vs. the Church of England

A/V Booth: Truthdig Debate Highlights

Reports: Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything

Ear to the Ground: Hedges Debates Hitchens

Ear to the Ground: Italian Prisoners Ask for Death

A/V Booth: Romney Collides With the Mormon Problem

Reports: Sam Harris Strikes Back

Reports: Apocalyptic Times for the GOP Faithful

Reports: Chris Hedges: I Don’t Believe in Atheists

Ear to the Ground: A Note on Chris Hedges’ Column

A/V Booth: Maher on Falwell: ‘Death Isn’t Always Sad’

Cartoons: In Memoriam

A/V Booth: Scheer and KPFK’s Weissman on War, Religion, Politics

Ear to the Ground: Falwell Dies at 73

Reports: Giuliani Forces GOP to Make a Choice

Cartoons: Self-Fulfilling Apocalypse

Ear to the Ground: Travolta Takes On the BBC

A/V Booth: Colbert Has a Gay Old Time at Dobson’s Expense

Ear to the Ground: Northern Ireland Chooses Peace

Reports: The Greatest Threat to Choice

A/V Booth: Stephen Colbert Confronts the ‘New Atheism’

A/V Booth: Imagine a President Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution

Cartoons: The Truce

Ear to the Ground: Religious Tension Mounts in Turkish Politics

Reports: Gore Vidal on Campaign ’08 and America’s Future

Reports: Jesus ‘Love-Bombs’ You

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: Bring Back Elitism

Reports: Truthdig Podcast: ‘Jesus Rode a Donkey’ Author

Truthdig Podcast: ‘Jesus Rode a Donkey’ Author

Reports: Praying for the Apocalypse

Ear to the Ground: Al-Sadr Calls on Iraqis to Fight U.S.

Reports: On Atheists and Easter

A/V Booth: Truthdig Podcast: The Consistent Christian

Truthdig Podcast: The Consistent Christian: Dr. Joel Hunter

Reports: A World Where Lies Are True

Multimedia Gallery: Praying Before the Fight

Digs: Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America

Reports: The Ultimate Taboo

A/V Booth: Hometown Baghdad

Reports: Religious Conviction vs. Political Dogmatism

Ear to the Ground: Just Say No to Armageddon

Ear to the Ground: Politician Breaks the God Barrier

Reports: When They Came for the Homosexuals…

Ear to the Ground: Attacks Kill More Than 100 Iraqi Shiites

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Setting Aside Differences

A/V Booth: Obama Talks Religion and Politics

Reports: Pariah or Prophet?

Ear to the Ground: Slim Pickings for Christian Right

A/V Booth: Hedges Explores Colbert’s Alternate Reality

Ear to the Ground: Pat Roberston Diet Shake Leads to Alleged Death Threat

A/V Booth: Weekly Video Roundup

A/V Booth: Evangelicals Make War on Evolution

Reports: Chris Hedges: The Christian Right’s War on America

A/V Booth: Sex Talk With Rev. Ted

Reports: Christianists on the March

Reports: Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Cartoons: Mr. Fish: Good and Evil

Ear to the Ground: Finally! Sam Harris vs. Andrew Sullivan

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Stem Cell Bill

Reports: Susan Estrich: The Mormon Question

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Butts Heads With Sunni Clerics

Cartoons: Luckovich: Robertson’s Predictions

Ear to the Ground: God to Robertson: ‘Say Something Crazy’

Ear to the Ground: Dogma National Park

Reports: Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors

Ear to the Ground: A Grim Outlook for 2007

Ear to the Ground: Disappearing Act in Mogadishu

Ear to the Ground: Congressman Suggests Jesus Surge for Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Somalia at War

A/V Booth: Goode Ol’ Boy’s Take on the Quran

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