Outside the Beltway

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

Back to the Ten Commandments and Alabama politics.

The American people don’t want to turn those migrant children from Central America away after all.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

Why is the marriage ceremony the government’s concern?

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

The Supreme Court has saved the biggest case of the term for its last day.

It is now illegal to teach creationism as science in the United Kingdom in any school, public or private, that receives public funding.

However you feel about the Redskins name, the decision to retroactively repeal their trademarks is troubling on many levels.

The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that public school graduations in churches are unconstitutional.

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

The very idea of a “war on religion” in the United States is absurd.

Allen West seems to think that God might want him to run for President. Unfortunately for Mr. West, so does Ben Carson.

The Supreme Court has again ruled that prayers that open legislative sessions are not unconstitutional.

The line “don’t know much about history” comes to mind.

Chase is closing accounts because it doesn’t like the career their customers have chosen.

So, this happened.

On Sunday, it’s the Day Of Four Popes.

More bad news when it comes to scientific literacy.

Does it really matter why Fraizer Glenn Miller murdered three people in Kansas?

Someone needs to give the Mayor of Warren, Michigan a lesson on what the First Amendment means.

An appeal declined, but an issue that remains outstanding.

Despite the mythos, 95% of Americans are either Christian or unaffiliated.

Hobby Lobby has a strong argument under RFRA but the precedent would be dangerous.

So, Dana Milbank has a column.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his complicated reaction to the first African-American president.