Gallup announced Monday that 22 percent of Americans would not vote a Mormon into the presidency, even if he were nominated by their own party. This is a figure that has not just remained steady since 1967, but on the whole has risen five points. Broken down by affiliation, 18 percent of Republicans, 19 percent…

Conspiracy theory fails for many reasons, but first because it always assumes a man’s motives are much more complicated than they actually are. A conspiracy theorist responds to something like 9/11 by disregarding completely the decades long history of third world savagery that lead to attacks around the world, choosing instead to concoct a combination…

We only help ourselves by knowing more about, and thinking more about, federal income taxes. It must have been in this spirit that an acquaintance recently linked to a Washington Post graphic outlining the differences between “Republican and Democratic tax plans.” (It was first published in August, but remains fresh enough in the abstract to…

Someone made a point to say that strip clubs operate near enough to Ground Zero, so why aren’t those concerned by the Park51 mosque worried about these clubs? This would be a fair point if strippers had flown planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as a means of exacting revenge against the…