Religion
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Conscience and the Culture Wars
Jun 29, 2015Conservatives say marriage equality and health-care laws threaten their religious freedom. Should they be exempt?
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Piety and Politics in America
May 15, 2015The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding.
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Is God a Republican?: Why Politics Is Dangerous for Religion
September-October 1996The Christian Coalition has made a dangerous gamble by associating faith with the Republican Party. If God blesses us only as Republicans or Democrats, both politics and religion are in trouble.
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Untapping the Potential of Black, Latino, and Asian American Evangelical Voters
Jun 06, 2018Both major parties have largely failed to court this faith community. But Democrats need to step up their outreach or they will miss out on an important group of possible supporters.
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Blowing Up Democracy and Charities in One Fell Swoop
Nov 22, 2017The House’s repeal of the Johnson Amendment poses an existential threat to both charities and American elections.
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Roy Moore Proves the Moral Bankruptcy of the Religious Right
Nov 15, 2017If there were any doubt that leaders such as Tony Perkins and Sandy Rios are more about the politics than Christian love, their respective silence on or defense of Moore lays that doubt to rest.
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The Proselytizers and the Privatizers
Nov 08, 2017How religious sectarian school voucher extremists made useful idiots of the charter movement
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Francis Revives the Workers’ Church
Oct 23, 2017The Catholic Church in America—once an ally of workers and their unions—grew deferential to big money in recent decades. Now, prompted by the Pope, a new generation of labor priests and bishops is trying to change that.
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Should Government Save Religion from Acts of God?
Oct 09, 2017The religious right wants to open up the spigots of government funding after natural disasters. But their ultimate goal is to secure more public funds for churches—even if it means undoing the First Amendment.
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Will the Supreme Court Abandon True Government Neutrality Toward Religion?
Sep 18, 2017The high court chips away at the once impregnable wall between church and state.
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The Religious Right Moves to Cement Political Power Under President Trump
Sep 01, 2017Conservative evangelicals have seen more victories in a Trump administration than they probably would have under any other Republican.
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America Glimpses the End Times in the Age of Trump
Jul 19, 2017In a single day, an absurd pile of events suggests that the government may indeed be trying to “immanentize the eschaton.”
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Obama Protected Mosques. Will Trump Target Them?
Jan 23, 2017Mosques in America, which the Obama administration fought to defend, now embody the threat to religious liberties posed by President Trump.
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Begin, Again: Trump Through the Eyes of a Holocaust Survivor
Jan 13, 2017How do the rhetoric of the president-elect and the hate crimes unleashed after his election affect those who have witnessed the worst?
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A Sacred Populist: Pope Francis Shakes Up His Church
Dec 24, 2016Pope Francis has outraged conservatives and liberals alike in the Catholic hierarchy, but his populist message is in step with his politically turbulent times.
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A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables
Nov 18, 2016A frightening array of Islamophobes, xenophobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists is assembling around President-elect Trump, normalizing the language and actions of hatred.
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Koch Brothers’ Latest Target: Pope Francis
Oct 14, 2016Better known for their high-dollar political spending, the billionaire Koch brothers have also poured millions into Catholic University’s business school to promote a free-market orthodoxy sharply at odds with the teachings of Pope Francis.
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No, Trump Hasn’t Destroyed the Christian Right
Oct 12, 2016The Republican nominee simply exposes the movement’s true aim: preservation of white patriarchy.
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