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New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

According to recently released poll numbers, President Trump seems to have retained much of the base that swept him into the Oval Office. An astonishing 88 percent of those who originally backed Trump during his campaign approve of his current job performance, and 91 percent of his original supporters still have a favorable view of him. This is a man who threw together a crackerjack team of unqualified bigots for his cabinet, possibly colluded wi…

Republicans Face Showdown With Religious Right Over Dropped Abortion Bill

By Sarah Posner

…of throngs of the most ardent anti-choice activists, and they only need to travel steps from their offices to do it. They had planned a vote on the bill to coincide with today’s march, and the bill’s passage would have enthralled participants, as the anti-choice movement has lobbied for years to ban abortion based on dubious claims about a fetus’s ability to experience pain. But Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), Jackie Walorski (R-IN), and others had obj…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…than 3,000 infections in Nicaragua, scientists express certainty that the numbers are much higher. “I believe that within Central America, Nicaragua is at the epicenter of the pandemic, and in terms of deaths per capita, the numbers are among the highest in Latin America, comparable to those of Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador,” states Dr. Jorge Huete, a molecular biologist based at Managua’s Universidad Centroamericana. “We can see that cases are growi…

No, Climate Change Deniers Aren’t Modern Day Galileos

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…major encyclical on the environment this summer. A few weeks later, he’ll travel to the United States, the planet’s biggest carbon emitter. And as climate change advocates go, Pope Francis is particularly difficult to impugn. Deniers can accuse liberal politicians of attempting to expand government regulation, and argue that scientists have a vested interest in keeping funds flowing to their labs. But with the pope, even these flimsy conflict-of-…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…and within days an official at LDS Church headquarters placed a concerned phone call to Melanie S.’s local clergy. Three times her bishop met with Melanie to discuss the video. Because she had affiliated with “Mormons for Marriage,” he questioned whether or not Melanie and her husband should be allowed to keep their temple recommends—certificates that allow the most worthy and devoted Mormons to participate in the faith’s sacred temple rites. Nor…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…to Wal-Mart, ate pizza in their hotel rooms, spent hours with them on the phone. Then, after Jesus was a no-show, I stayed in contact with them—the ones who would talk to me, anyway—over the following days and months, checking back in to see how or if their thinking had changed. I learned a lot about the seductive power of radical belief, the inscrutable vagaries of biblical interpretation, and how our minds can shape reality to fit a narrative….

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…me in the SPR threw themselves behind a new contraption called the “psycho-phone” through which the inventors claimed to be hearing the voices of angels. The psychophone no doubt sounds absurd, but I can’t say that it sounds much more far-fetched than a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Both demonstrate the enduring cultural impulse toward techno-theologizing. However much neuroscientists might want to forswear an interest in the metaphysics of th…

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, here. — eds Amidst a recent layover, my phone pinged to indicate I’d been “mentioned” on Twitter, which is never a good sign. Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo had tweeted a photo from my 2018 book event suggesting it was an “antifa training” session. He then tagged Haaretz—a left-leaning Israeli newspaper I occasionally write for—asking why they would publish an “antisemitism denier.” Pointing to a recent intervie…

Madoff, Through a Glass, Darkly

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…were terrified of him. The brothers never speak anymore; they talk on the phone at least once a day. It’s all there and it’s all unclear. All we know for a fact is that it all came apart very suddenly. On December 9, 2008, Bernie Madoff told his son, Mark, that he intended to pay out $173 million in holiday bonuses two months early. Deeply concerned, Mark revealed this to Andrew, who concluded that Madoff Securities should probably be re-named. T…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ca are (and, moreover, in the wake of Obama’s election, who will get their phone calls returned from the White House) certain names keep cropping up. Pastor Rick Warren, who sees no daylight between his views and James Dobson’s, but who, according to Sullivan’s book, former-DNC-chair Terry McAuliffe blasphemously didn’t know; Jim Wallis, best-selling author and activist who lambasts the religious right for its petty intolerance and the left for “n…