To hear some conservatives tell it, the last group against whom one can practice socially acceptable bigotry is, well, them: white, straight, native-born, right-wing Christians, against whom the federal government is waging a “silent war,” as Bobby Jindal alleges, that may lead to the “criminalization of Christianity,” as Mike Huckabee warns.

Empathy for victims is critical in hate crime cases. For Muslims, that can be hard to get.

In an era with more people connected to each other, Americans should assume that their online communications are being collected and monitored.

Last March, John T. Booker, a 20-year-old from Kansas, checked himself into a mental health facility for evaluation.

In the conclusion of ten years of intense litigation, Dr. Sami Al-Arian and his wife Nahla boarded a plane last night and left the United States for Turkey.

In the closely watched Supreme Court case, EEOC v. Abercrombie, the Becket Fund filed a brief debunking Abercrombie’s claim that a Muslim job applicant should have explained during her job interview she was wearing a headscarf for religious reasons in order to be protected by anti-discrimination laws.