Page-turner

Will Obama's Speech Jump-start His Party?

E. J. Dionne Jr.

By insisting that "it's time to turn the page," the president was talking about more than Iraq. He was also trying to turn the page on a particularly rough period for the Democrats and for his presidency.

Wrong Then, Wrong Now

What Yesterday's Anti-Catholicism Has in Common with Today's Islamophobia

Paul Moses

For the past few months, I’ve been researching the anti-Catholic vitriol faced by the Irish in nineteenth-century New York. Those attacks bear a striking resemblance to the biting comments being made against Islam and the backers of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.

Groundless

The Editors

In the past nine years, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have been invoked, distorted, and exploited to serve a variety of political and ideological agendas. But no such effort has been quite as shameful as the current campaign against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.

Prop 8 & the Rule of Facts

How Not to Settle the Gay Marriage Question

Robert K. Vischer

Same-sex marriage is coming in the United States. But the process by which it will arrive remains an open question. Political resolutions tend to reflect a broader set of concerns than do judicial ones, and while the political path can be slow and messy, its capacity for nuance equips it to handle such issues more capaciously than our courts.