Capitalism hasn’t disenchanted the world. Like a bad lover, it beguiles us into spiritual desolation.

The political philosophy embraced by Germany’s leading party helped reunite Europe after World War II. Can it guide us safely away from today’s populism—or did it cause it?

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic.

Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy. 

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church radically changed its position on whether religion is a public or private matter.

In a bid to consolidate power, Erdoğan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.

The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

Remembering James H. Cone, a founder of Black liberation theology.

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.

Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.

Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.