religion
Christian right enforces GOP senators’ vote against UN disabilities treaty
“I couldn’t sleep at night if I were a senator and did not vote for this.” So said Steven Rothstein, a leading advocate for the disabled, to the Boston Globe on the eve of the US Senate vote to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Apparently, 38 Republican senators decided they’d rather lose sleep than lose their [...]
Reworking Islam in Pakistan
In my last visit to Pakistan, I stayed, as usual, with a close cousin and his family. Himself a physician, his twin sons had also recently graduated from medical school and were preparing to begin their residency programs. The mother of the family founded and ran a number of private primary and secondary schools, and [...]