March Madness for college basketball begins tomorrow with sixty-four teams competing for the championship. A similar competition has been playing out in the US... Read More

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains plot details from Season 4 of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Last week, after months of nail-biting... Read More

Last week James Carroll wrote a sensitive piece in the New Yorker (“The Radical Meaning of Pope Francis's Visit to Juarez”) about the testy... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this week's show, Stephanie Zvan introduces interviewer Peggy Knudtson, and Peggy and Jenn Wilson... Read More

This is an article published under the Center for Freethought Equality, the 501c4 lobbying organization of the American Humanist Association. I know that Iowa... Read More

With the first electoral event of the 2016 presidential race behind us (with Ted Cruz winning for the Republicans and Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary... Read More

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. This was the message of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, the fifth GOP debate this year. Coming off the heels... Read More

Over the past several months, we’ve gotten a sense of how the 2016 presidential elections are shaping up. Well, at least for the primary.... Read More

Call me naïve, but after the first Democratic debate, I figured that Republicans would follow the example of their liberal colleagues and tone down... Read More

Can we all agree that modern debates are horrible? While in the past they might have been events that focused on policies and ideas,... Read More