BY JOE CONASON Recent expressions of political and religious prejudice against Mormons and the Church of Latter-Day Saints have offered Mitt Romney a chance to play the bullied underdog – and to explain, as he did with clarity and dignity during the Vegas debate, the meaning of the constitutional prohibition against any religious test for […]

BY CHARLES C. HAYNES Culture wars are returning to school this fall as conflicts over what to say – or not to say – about...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH As I write this, some 8.5 million of my fellow Californians have just finished practicing what to do in the likely event of a major earthquake. Oct. 20 at 10:20 a.m. was designated the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill, the moment when you “Drop, Cover and Hold On.” Luckily, my building didn’t […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The day I became a citizen of these United States, June 17, 2009, in the old Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland, I raised my right hand and swore that I “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which […]

BY RALPH NADER Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1831, the "Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011," on May 11. It is a simple bill at...