Thousands of people reportedly crowded a narrow path leading to the temple when the stampede occurred. … Read the rest

And as if their bodies belong to them, not to everyone else.… Read the rest

If Gore would only take Matthew Nisbet’s advice, he might begin to get somewhere.… Read the rest

Child brides are more likely to die young, suffer from health problems, live in poverty and remain illiterate.… Read the rest

Jesus hits a snag.… Read the rest

He was wearing rubber underwear…… Read the rest

The Nobel Prize “is honoring the science and the publicity, and they’re necessarily different.’… Read the rest

Arat Dink, son of Hrant Dink, and Serkis Seropyan referred to Armenian genocide.… Read the rest

In Nicaragua a new law has put a blanket ban on abortion even if the woman’s life might be in danger. … Read the rest

Nicaraguan doctors are now afraid of going to jail. Many think it is better to let a woman die.… Read the rest

Where does it start? Jokes? No. Cartoons? No. A film? No. A book? No. Where then?… Read the rest

To assert the superiority of some values over others is no different from defending the former.… Read the rest

Easterners flock to collect their degrees from Oxbridge, Harvard and the Sorbonne. Traffic in the other direction is minimal.… Read the rest

‘Freedom of religion must be limited, intrinsically, by the right to equality between women and men.’… Read the rest

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf wrote the preface to the NGO report.… Read the rest

Is Sam Harris right to reject labels like ‘Atheist’ and ‘Humanist’?… Read the rest

The urge to pass along pain lurks behind modern warfare no less than it did behind medieval pageantry.… Read the rest

‘I don’t remember ever feeling, in every allowable sense of the word, quite so hollow.’… Read the rest