No money for the Senate campaign, he is told.… Read the rest

A caricature of a banker with a hooked nose, wearing Star of David cufflinks? Yes, that’s Nazi-like.… Read the rest

Mullahs are concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.… Read the rest

Cardinal Keith O’Brien has turned down an invitation to discuss same-sex marriage, leaving any talks to officials, just as he ought.… Read the rest

Assange is a rape suspect who skipped bail. Yet some of his supporters have made
arguments that they would never make about anybody else.… Read the rest

Reports say that she has Down syndrome and that she and her mother were beaten by a mob.… Read the rest

“We did forgive them from the very start. But such actions should be cut short by society and authorities.”… Read the rest

Moscow city government claims the parade would cause public disorder and that most Muscovites do not support it.… Read the rest

His new book takes in language and the arts in its bold attempt to demonstrate that generosity, as mandated by group selection, is humanity’s secret ingredient.… Read the rest

The US and EU said the sentences were disproportionate. Amnesty International
said they must be overturned.… Read the rest

Doctors refused to give her chemo because she was 9 weeks pregnant. They waited 20 days before allowing the treatment. Too late.… Read the rest

A chance for Putin to paint his opponents as obscene, disrespectful, rabble-rousing liberal urbanites backed by the West.… Read the rest

“The girls’ actions were sacrilegious, blasphemous and broke the church’s
rules,” Judge Marina Syrova told the court.… Read the rest

Judge says the forced marriage of a Bangladeshi woman with learning difficulties should be annulled.… Read the rest

Unbearable suffering, prolonged by medical care, and  inflicted on a dying patient against their will, is an unequivocal evil.… Read the rest

“We must never forget this is about child cruelty not culture and we cannot afford to wait until another child is murdered before decisive action is taken.”… Read the rest

You get Romney’s god as a space alien in magic underwear, and Obama’s sadistic god who promotes hate and calls it love.… Read the rest

The provisional constitution says FGM is “a cruel and degrading customary practice, and is tantamount to torture. The circumcision of girls is prohibited.”… Read the rest

Jennifer Ouellette says why just giving up on teaching algebra is a very bad (and anti-democratic) idea.… Read the rest

The number of women between 15 and 44 who lose their lives to gender-based violence outstrips deaths due to traffic accidents, malaria, cancer and war… Read the rest