The Oslo Peace Process: A Calamity for Both Israel and the Palestinians
Delegitimizing Israel while legitimizing the PLO.
September 7, 2016
No, Religious-Freedom Laws Don’t Protect Child Abusers
Whatever the Daily Beast says.
In Indiana, the lawyer of a mother charged with severely beating her seven-year-old son has claimed that she was following Christian teachings and is thus protected from prosecution by the state’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). While this argument lacks any legal merit and is unlikely to convince a judge, some media outlets have seized upon it as grounds on which to object to RFRA and other such laws. Mark Hemingway explains the tendentiousness of this line of reporting:
September 7, 2016
Will No One Support the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood?
More likely to appear on the menu than to get a seat at the table.
Al-Qaeda Scores a Comeback against Islamic State
Rumors of its demise have been exaggerated.
No, Religious-Freedom Laws Don’t Protect Child Abusers
Whatever the Daily Beast says.
The Carefully Crafted Message of the Book of Judges
A literary masterpiece in the prophetic tradition.