The Bad Religion at the Heart of GOP Healthcare Policy
Even as Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch and putatively face-saving “repeal, then replace” maneuver fails, it’s important…
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3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle
When President Obama proposed requiring health plans to cover common contraceptives without charge, the Catholic…
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Trump Admits His Religious Liberty Order Is Just “A Great Thing for Christianity”
President Trump sat down with Pat Robertson in the Oval Office on Wednesday to give…
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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This
The NRA released a terrifying recruitment video the other day, unsettling even by their standards,…
Read MoreGOP isn’t Pro-Life After All
The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim…
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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours
Hand to God, every mainstream commentator on religion and politics has a liturgy—a catechism—they must…
Read MoreFranklin Graham Blames Democrats for Escalating Tensions with Russia
For someone professing to be convinced that “God” placed Donald J. Trump in the office…
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Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”
The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to…
Read MorePrexit and the Planet: Our Resistance Must Know No Borders
The US exit from the Paris agreement, our Prexit, is an environmental catastrophe. We needed…
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DeVos Literally Can’t Name a Discriminatory Policy She’d Refuse to Fund
In a tense exchange with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark on Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy…
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