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Steven Waldman

I was on a TV show the other day with an Israeli diplomat, who declared that Israel is the only democracy in the Mideast. I’ve certainly heard that many times over the years — including here, here, and here — and have even repeated it myself. Isn’t it time we retired that notion? This week…

The Newsweek cover story whacking Oprah focused mostly on her support for dubious health cures but the package also criticized her support for the spiritual book, The Secret: This perpetual search for The Answer reached its apex a couple of years ago, when Oprah led the frenzy over The Secret. The video and accompanying book…

xnyrc ask for your prayers here: Please pray for my son who is having some very hard times in this economic downturn and has turned to drugs which have made him make decisions that can effect his life forever. Please pray that my son gets the help he needs for addiction and for low self…

President Obama has appointed a pro-life progressive to head faith-based initiatives at the Department of Health and Human Services. Alexia Kelley had run the Catholics in Alliance for Common Good that pushed for health care reform, aid for the poor, immigration reform. It also was pro-life and advocated efforts to reduce the number of abortions…

An evangelical Christian group created this to oppose “partial-birth abortions.” It’s an effective way of challenging those who get late term abortions out of fear that the baby will be disabled or have Down Syndrome.The problem is, this is not why most abortions, or probably even late term abortions, actually happen. First, only 1.1% of…

Tarek Hefni, a Cairo college student, response to Obama’s speech: “I did not feel very comfortable regarding the two state solution and regarding treating the Holocaust as a fact. It is still a debatable issue and should not be taken as granted….I also don’t see any relevance between people being killed by other nation and…

Obama’s speech reminds us that 9/11 needn’t have led to a conflict between the West and Islam. It’s a reminder of the road not taken. Remember, after the attacks, the whole world — including the Muslim world was on our side. America was innocent. Much of the Islamic world didn’t much like Al Qaeda, whose…

This is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Cairo, with my commentaries, in italics, sprinkled throughout. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century,…

In response to my piece The Inconvenient Truths (For Both Sides) About Late Term Abortions , bcstractor wrote: “I am not sure why I would want to listen to anything from a guy who started “beliefnet”. I f you cannot figure out which religion is correct why would you come to any sensible conclusions about…

Josh Marshall on Talking Points Memo has this provocative argument that the Obama administration is right to hold the line against Israel’s desire to allow “natural growth” in West Bank settlements. “In Israel, the language of settlement growth is divided into two categories — building new settlements and “natural growth” of existing ones. Even the…
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