What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?
Americans like to talk about law as if it something real, something outside the thoughts…
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Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough
We learned last week that Trump the Enabler doesn’t need Steve Bannon at his side…
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments
Author Jenna Weissman Joselit answers RD’s 10 Questions
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I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches
Have you been waiting for any prominent conservative evangelical leaders to withdraw or temper their…
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Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?
The bishops helped radicalize white Catholics to be favorable to Trump—which they were, with 60 percent backing him despite all-but-explicit condemnations by Pope Francis:
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Hillary-the-Preacher, and Why Journalists Can’t Let Go of the “Democrats Don’t Get Religion” Story
Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s fault?
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The Most Ridiculous Responses to the Vatican’s Call-out of the Catho–Christian Right
It’s not surprising that the apparently Vatican-approved denouncement of the conservative Catholic-Christian alliance that has…
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A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump
People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch this month published an important report by…
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Seth Meyers Tries to Unpack Trump’s Faith: A Narcissistic Prosperity Gospel
On Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a break from…
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Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”
Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who…
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