Public discussion of a new study by the Pew Research Center titled ldquo Twenty to One rdquo has focused on the report rsquo s main finding that the Great Recession has resulted in record highs in wealth disparity in the U S especially among Latinos and blacks in comparison with whites The rep

Maryland s Governor Martin O Malley and Baltimore s Archbishop Edwin O Brien were publicly at odds over O Malley s support of same-sex marriage earlier this summer and The Washington Post reports on private letters between the two that are now public ldquo I have concluded that discriminating aga

CNS offers some interesting results from a new poll WASHINGTON CNS -- American Muslims are more optimistic about their future than people of other religions are about their own though Muslims say they regularly contend with suspicion and lack of respect for their faith A decade after the Sept

Texas governor and increasingly likely Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry helped to create and promote a stadium-sized praise and worship service held this weekend in Texas called The Response nbsp Watch the promotional video which stylistically bears a striking resemblance to a scary

Reports out of the Horn of Africa could not be much worse Three new regions of Somalia are officially in famine conditions this is the first such UN declaration of famine in decades Thousands have aleady died and are dying as you read these words refugees fleeing the famine continue to seek aid

The dog days of summer are being accompanied by howls of pain today from investors Decisively contradicting predictions that the end of the tragic-comic debt ceiling ldquo debate rdquo in Washington would lead to a market revival all major U S indexes indeed indexes around the world began a s