elections

NOM is pulling out all the stops to defeat Obama and marriage equality—and starting its post-election spin.

Romney was 31 when the ban on blacks in the priesthood was lifted.

More on the electionpocalypse.

Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.

As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.

A Republican, not just a Mormon, problem.

The “Vote Catholic” campaign.

Bottom line: hyping age-old anti-Mormon suspicion does nothing to combat racism in the presidential elections. Sullivan should know better.

If there is one thing people need during a national disaster, it is functioning and effective government. If there is one time we need redistributive justice, it is during a crisis. Much of politics perhaps just comes down to what is, and is not, a crisis—a hurricane I hope we can all agree on. But what about climate change? Or health care? What is life-threatening? What is an emergency?

Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.