The question in the headline on this column is not meant to be frivolous. For Jews and their families in America in the 1930s, '40s and '50s — and even to some extent today — events from time to time ...

You might think PBS is being a little perverse, airing a show called "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" a week before Christmas and a week after Hanukkah. That would be if you didn't know that Dec. 18 is ...

What follows is a sampling of e-mails from viewers and online readers in response to Monday's column about the Feb. 7 interview with Vice President Dick Cheney on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and ...

Since Sept. 11, 2001, two ideas about Islam have become axiomatic: that Americans need to know more about the religion and that “moderate” Muslims in the U.S. and other Western societies need to ...

"God is the most great. I testify there is no other God but God. I testify Muhammad is the messenger of God." Five times each day, virtually all around the globe, an estimated quarter of a billion ...