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In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as, one by one, the biggest names in conservative Christianity fall in line behind…

There’s lots of good stuff in the new PRRI/Brookings poll on immigration and cultural change released yesterday, including, oddly, a long section on voters’ views on terrorism, crime, and unemployment…

For technical reasons (damn you, Adobe Flash!) I was limited to monitoring the progress of the Congressional Democrats’ sit-in last night mostly by Twitter. Still, what I saw was fascinating, and…

There’s three definitions of terrorism I see tossed around. One is simple: Violence by a non-state actor. Another is moral: Violence against civilians—usually for a political purpose, and often by a…

It should have been their finest moment, the crowning achievement of a nearly decade-long effort to convince traditionalist Americans that their right of “religious freedom” is under assault from…

From its beginning, the 2016 Republican presidential primary has been steeped in irony. Indeed, one can’t discuss the absurdities of 2016 without mentioning evangelicals’ backing of Trump as a “pro…

Because of the outspoken opposition to Donald Trump by some of its leaders, and its call (in a resolution just passed at its annual meeting in St. Louis) for removal of the Confederate flags from…

Although the question of whether Donald Trump would win the nomination as the presumptive Republican presidential candidate has been settled, what still remains unknown is how white evangelical voters…

The U.S. Catholic bishops met in Huntington Beach, California this week, just days after the Orlando massacre. And despite the fact that the church’s most powerful prelates were all gathered together…

There’s a post at Eclectablog with an interesting insight about the 2016 campaign, inspired by this pro-Clinton ad: As the post explains, this ad discusses a Trump attack on a disabled journalist, and…