On the Newsstand: Summer 2010
Religion in America

The New Moral Majority, Religion and Aid, Andrew Breitbart, and the Drug War

Covers

The New Moral Majority?

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Young evangelicals shift left, change focus.

Who Gets to Give Aid?

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American faith-based organizations and the politics of belief

Rise of the Nonbelievers

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Future looks bright for those “Good Without God.”

Religion in America?

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America has long had a complex, almost schizophrenic attitude towards religion.

The Colors of Islam

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Muslims in America remain separated by race.

The American Way of Faith

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Compromise, innovation, and tradition define American religion.

Is Godless Great?

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A new heyday for American secularism

United States

How to Pass a Gas Tax

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The politics of an unpopular policy

Slimming Down America

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To combat obesity and improve America’s health, change the food industry

The Dangers of Direct Democracy

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In Federalist No. 63, James Madison wrote that the defining principle of American democracy, as compared to Athenian democracy, “lies in the total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity.” But since Madison wrote those words, several direct-democratic institutions have been introduced into American politics. California became the first state to adopt a ballot-initiative process in 1911, enabling citizens ... Read More

The Tea Party: Past, Present, and Future

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Explaining the right-wing movement

When Science Meets State

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Who should decide on the future of stem cell research?

World

In Iraq, Messy is Better

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A close election indicates a strengthening democratic process

Battlefield Juarez

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Time is running out for the Mexican drug war

Secularism vs. Sharia

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The threat of Islamism in Turkey is overblown

Will Wealth Bring Democracy to Hong Kong?

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As long as Hong Kong’s economy is booming, calls for democracy will remain on the backburner

Books & Arts

Chasing Ghosts

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Green Zone’s conspiratorial world

Too Real for the Big Screen?

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Two sci-fi allegories provoke unjust criticism

Revenge of the Wall St. Nerds

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An exposé of the math guys who broke the economy

Rejecting extremes

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A global examination of church and state

Tocqueville Revisited?

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A Brit Tries to Explain America

Interviews

Tea’d Off

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Andrew Breitbart's May 2010 defense of the Tea Party in an exclusive interview with the HPR.

The Dark Side of American Liberty

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Dr. Tristram Riley-Smith

A New Day for Labor

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Richard Trumka

The Business of Governing in Nigeria

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Babatunde Raji Fashola

Getting the Word Out

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M.C. Andrews

Working for Workers

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John Sweeney

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