"One of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposes you'll ever read -- just don't read it alone at night!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed [ Continue reading: ]



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Our New Deal

The Revealer has been born again. In the administrative sense, that is. Starting this fall -- now -- The Revealer will be draw upon a staff of a few dozen graduate journalism students from New York University's Department of Journalism, and from the University of Southern California. We're on a mission: in search of new forms for journalism about religion, broadly defined... [ Continue reading: ]

What God Gap?
Crossing Lines in the Culture War:
The Revealer gets religion outside the Garden at the Republican National Convention. [ Continue reading: ]

Ordinary
Life & Death
By Jeff Sharlet



The war in Iraq proceeds
now with ever-more deeply embedded religious symbolism... [ Continue reading: ]

Pictures from an Inquisition
From Goya to Private Lynndie England.
By Jeff Sharlet
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Coffins
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Who's that Girl?
Jeff Sharlet reveals a new motif in the photojournalism coming out of Iraq, an image recurring with such frequency that it may become iconic, a successor to the pictures of Saddam’s statue being pulled down, the pictures of small Iraqi children with big, goodhearted, American lugs, the pictures of Bush in his flight suit. But now, the pictures are harder to parse. And yet just as numerous: There are so many pictures of black-veiled Iraqi women walking past tanks and and Bradley fighting vehicles and American troops with rifles at the ready that you begin to wonder what the news is here, why these particular pictures now? What made photographers start seeing these images? [ Continue reading: ]

Genocidaires


by Jeff Sharlet [ Continue reading: ]

See the Dreamer


by Michael Lesy [ Continue reading: ]

Nailing the Passion
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Imam Ali in Sadr City
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