Jack Miles

Science keeps revealing how much we don't, perhaps can't, know. Yet humans seek closure, which should make religious pluralists of us all.

California will cease to be a democratic polity unless it lets its Mexican immigrants vote in local elections. Politically impossible? Yes — but a dramatically success fill experiment in effective border control could change that political calculus

Behind the Los Angeles riot lay a grim economic competition between Latinos and African-Americans, which is intensifying and which poses a stern challenge to U.S. domestic and foreign policy, as well as to sentimental cultural attitudes about immigration