On the Newstand: Summer 2010
Religion in America

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

Covers

The New Moral Majority?

By Kristen Eberts and Robert Lothman

Young evangelicals shift left, change focus.

Who Gets to Give Aid?

By Amy Beeson

American faith-based organizations and the politics of belief

Rise of the Nonbelievers

By Jimmy Bohnslav and Georgia Stasinopoulos

Future looks bright for those “Good Without God.”

Religion in America?

By Chris Danello

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

The Colors of Islam

By Brian Burton

Muslims in America remain separated by race.

The American Way of Faith

By Richard Kelley and Jordan Monge

Compromise, innovation, and tradition define American religion.

Is Godless Great?

By Sarah Harland-Logan

A new heyday for American secularism

United States

How to Pass a Gas Tax

By Will Rafey

The politics of an unpopular policy

Slimming Down America

By Neil Patel

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

The Dangers of Direct Democracy

By Peter Bozzo and Andrew Irvine

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 [...]

The Tea Party: Past, Present, and Future

By Alexander Chen

Explaining the right-wing movement

When Science Meets State

By John Prince

Who should decide on the future of stem cell research?

World

In Iraq, Messy is Better

By Victoria Hargis

A close election indicates a strengthening democratic process

Battlefield Juarez

By Taylor Lane and Mason Pesek

Time is running out for the Mexican drug war

Secularism vs. Sharia

By Jimmy Wu

The threat of Islamism in Turkey is overblown

Will Wealth Bring Democracy to Hong Kong?

By Tiffany Wen

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

Books & Arts

Chasing Ghosts

By Jeffrey Lerman

Green Zone’s conspiratorial world

Too Real for the Big Screen?

By Alec Barrett

Two sci-fi allegories provoke unjust criticism

Revenge of the Wall St. Nerds

By Jeffrey Kalmus

An exposé of the math guys who broke the economy

Rejecting extremes

By Casey Thomson

A global examination of church and state

Tocqueville Revisited?

By Paul Mathis

A Brit Tries to Explain America

Interviews

The Dark Side of American Liberty

By Eli Martin

Dr. Tristram Riley-Smith

The Business of Governing in Nigeria

By Felix de Rosen

Babatunde Raji Fashola

Getting the Word Out

By Adan Acevedo

M.C. Andrews

A New Day for Labor

By Alex Copulsky

Richard Trumka

Tea’d Off

By Alex Sherbany

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

Working for Workers

By Kristen Eberts

John Sweeney

custom writing