With a population of nine million, Mexico City has more people than 40 of America's 50 states. It also has more Catholics than any American state except California. In fact, Mexico City is the second-largest... Read More

I always wonder what happened in Western political thought when the defenders of dictatorial regimes and advocates of the status quo are cheered on as leftists and peacemakers, while those who stand in solidarity with... Read More

I'm returning from New York, where I keynoted a big Planned Parenthood event. It's wonderful to speak to groups of people who support sexual rights. It always feels like visiting family. (The family that makes... Read More

Dr. Anna looked down at my blood test results, looked up at me, and then looked back at the test results. “It’s impossible,” she said. “No one can look as good as you do or... Read More

“Over 4,000 cops from around the country occupied my hometown,” wrote a Pittsburgh native a week after the September G-20 Summit focusing on the global financial and economic crisis was held in the city, along... Read More

Gore Vidal is not a man of faith. And the American Humanist Association’s new honorary president ain’t no poster child either. So it goes (as his predecessor Kurt Vonnegut used to say) that Gore Vidal... Read More

Social scientists at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice have been researching the causes of the Catholic Church's modern scandal over the molestation of boys by priests. In releasing their initial findings, researchers... Read More