How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes
Amid news that the GOP is trying once again to restart negotiations over their failed…
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Why The Religious Left Isn’t Coming Together, and Why It Matters
So my article from last week on the supposedly emerging religious left has attracted some…
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What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights
It’s not every day that a self-proclaimed conservative who spent more than a decade leading…
Read MoreTrump Is Out to Erase LGBT Americans from Public Life
Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host…
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How Much More Nuanced Can Democrats Get on Abortion Rights?
As Patti Miller noted here on RD, Thomas Groome’s Times op-ed urging Democrats to soften…
Read MoreOld White Dudes Tell the Democrats to Forget about Abortion
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College,…
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Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.
You ever hear the saying, “same shit, different day”? I’m reminded of that very phrase…
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Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America
Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation:…
Read MoreLatest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin marked the arrival of Spring by signing a new “religious freedom” law…
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Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking
There’s a connection between hitting children and cultural identity. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I…
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