In response to Peter Laarman’s Sept. 3 editorial “Jerry Brown’s Cynical, Unethical Prison Plan,” RD received the following letter from Deborah Hoffman, assistant secretary of communications for the ...

No, in July of 2014 we don’t face the urgent threat of an established church, but we do face an ongoing struggle with those abusing freedom of religion.

Peter Laarman is a United Church of Christ minister who served as senior minister of New York's Judson Memorial Church and then as executive director of LA's Progressive Christians Uniting before ...

The Poverty Forum’s supposedly cross-the-spectrum plan to reduce poverty runs the gamut—from A to B. While it is perpetually depressing to see the Democrats drinking the Kool-Aid of “No Enemies Among ...

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The fact that I live in a neighborhood and a nation where each person’s right to celebrate Independence Day as noisily as possible is held sacred gives special piquancy to reflecting on a book about ...

Sparked by his elderly mother’s impersonal medical care, our writer laments the fact that doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their patients and its ...

Pundits that play the story as merely another “unforced error” on Ryan’s part miss this crucial point about the containable rage of the exposed despoilers toward someone who is, by all accounts, a ...