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Update: On the social issues front, perhaps the most remarkable development of the debate didn’t happen last night, but today, when FoxNews apparently edited out Jeb Bush’s fumbling answer on whether…

Alright, Governor Huckabee, since you asked… After Mike Huckabee, who portrays himself as perhaps the most loyal friend Israel has in American politics, told Breitbart News that President Obama’s…

That’s a question our very own Anthea Butler posed to me in a bloggingheads episode we taped on Monday about the impact Trump is having on the Republican presidential primary. What’s the answer? Watch…

The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody wants to tell you why evangelicals like Donald Trump. It’s a good try, but it’s not very convincing. Brody has spent many years interviewing…

You may have heard that there was a spot of bother at Netroots Nation this week. Black Lives Matter activists interrupted a forum with Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, wanting to know what the…

Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that “candidates who actually have a shot at winning the presidency should understand: Immigrant-bashing…

Anyone scanning the headlines about the federal appeals court’s rejection of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate could be forgiven for…

“ virtue of spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks, but what it sees.” Roland Barthes, Mythologies Part of what spectacle is good for is…

The encyclical is finally here. Laudato si was officially released today and has already produced a tremendous amount of commentary online. And yet the political ramifications of the encyclical, at…

Ahead of the release of Pope Francis’ first major encyclical Laudato si, dealing with global warming, Republican politicians have been falling all over themselves trying to say they know how to do his…