https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to marco rubio en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/13/germany-classifies-right-wing-extremist-afd-danger-democracy-and-high-ranking-trump Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” made headlines by officially classifying the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as “right-wing extremist.” This news shouldn’t have come as a… Tue, 13 May 2025 03:42:33 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 06a83ba4-cbc9-45d7-8f44-74700a3a2c53 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/29/intellectual-source-code-national-conservatism-can-be-found-niche-catholic-publication First Things describes itself as “America’s most influential journal of religion and public life.” You might not have heard of First Things —the magazine’s circulation wouldn’t drain a bathtub and its web traffic is quite modest—but its slogan is no… Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:20:26 EDT Peter Schwartz 77931983-8a56-49d2-92c5-775c6ed40d44 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/04/white-nationalist-ideology-shines-through-elite-maga-conference-inside-natcon-part-ii Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion, O Lord, over this nation”… Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT Ben Lorber 8b40abd3-629f-4727-a893-35feb44bb83d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/03/elite-movement-laying-foundation-maga-will-outlast-trump-and-remake-america-inside “Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in Miami, as a 29-year-old… Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:51:03 EDT Ben Lorber 6663c40d-e1d0-4923-8e9c-1df64285ab08 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/28/parkland-activists-dont-care-what-you-think-and-theyre-not-interested-faith-wars It’s been interesting to wake up this morning and discover that the #NEVERAGAIN kids have rattled everyone from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to the National Review’s Charles W. Cooke, to Marco Rubio, who whined: As fun as it would be… Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:02:39 EST Daniel Schultz e63b47e8-251c-4031-bb5a-c861b54091b4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/21/election-2016-postracial-blues-blackvotesmatter-evangelicals-trump-and-who-are-we-now From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad campaign, the religion-in-politics rule book is getting a major rewrite in 2016. And while religion watchers everywhere are laboring to make sense of this… Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:59:42 EDT The Editors 9d28381c-4d7d-4c64-9093-196f40accd38 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/18/rubios-failure-reveals-dearth-moderates-gop Tuesday was not a happy day for religion writers like myself who explore the intersection of the Catholic Church and American politics. With Marco Rubio’s withdrawal from the GOP nomination race on Tuesday, we lost the last Catholic in what… Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:21:15 EDT Patricia Miller fa680a8a-0804-4881-94a9-76bcd6cebea1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/04/does-donald-trump-have-catholic-problem And apparently he cheats at golf. Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:16:21 EST Patricia Miller 569f99a0-13ba-4a02-a7f9-0d7e68a16485 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/12/cruz-induced-angst-and-christian-virtue Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that compassionate conservatism is so 2000. In today’s… Tue, 12 Jan 2016 03:58:31 EST Sarah Posner e783c787-105d-4433-bb04-40b1d4cd5fd7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/11/rubios-awkward-balancing-act-between-evangelicals-and-catholics Marco Rubio’s “Faith” evangelical outreach ad, which debuted in Iowa over the weekend, can be seen as confirmation of a trend that’s long been brewing in politics: the rise of Evangelical Catholics in the Republican Party. As I noted in… Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:20:34 EST Patricia Miller 9f4098e5-7f1f-4cea-a95d-1947d91035e8 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/08/inside-rubio-cruz-battle-evangelical-voters In the midst of an intra-evangelical dispute over whether Ted Cruz is indeed consolidating the support of influential evangelical leaders, supporters of Marco Rubio’s campaign are trying to make the case that his appeal to evangelicals is fundamentally different from… Fri, 08 Jan 2016 04:14:44 EST Sarah Posner d87aa61d-6cf1-440e-9483-cf7ab7a95afb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/03/cruz-and-evangelical-illusion Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have donated $15 million to Keep the Promise II… Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:16:56 EST Sarah Posner a7f308dd-7264-492c-9ead-10e841e895aa https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/16/party-religious-liberty-botches-debate-religion-and-constitution Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible-believing Christians,” who would need the big, bad overreaching government’s protection from… Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:50:04 EST Sarah Posner 92c5004d-85c3-4b4a-b968-c718c0e1f71e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/04/dont-overlook-endless-war-rise-isis Capital in the Twenty-First Century made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the forefront of our political debates. It should come as no… Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:27:39 EST Haroon Moghul 605c5acf-8044-4e91-88a0-b4ff6fa2bcf2 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/17/sad-incoherence-jebs-abortion-position One of the big questions at last week’s Republican debate was whether Jeb Bush would follow the lead of his super PAC and attack Marco Rubio as being unelectable in the general election because of his hard-core stance against any… Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:18:43 EST Patricia Miller 8cfb888f-c4e4-4561-a543-ec94db715f58 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/16/tweeting-isis-attacks-lesson-not-learning-lesson After Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, France, leaving 129 dead, hundreds wounded, a nation traumatized, and a world shocked, we are of course asking: What do we do now? But, of course, we’ve been here before. We overthrew the Taliban… Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:05:07 EST Haroon Moghul c9fb7e15-e20b-4747-bf81-3d6411b1106b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/13/marco-rubio-isnt-religious-panderer-hes-new-breed At ThinkProgress, Jack Jenkins gives a rundown of current GOP favorite Marco Rubio’s triumvirate religious affiliation, noting that Rubio’s associations with Mormonism, Catholicism and Evangelicalism give him a unique edge with the three pillars of religious conservatism in the U.S… Tue, 13 Oct 2015 03:57:15 EDT Patricia Miller c32c5c3c-2d1e-4bf9-8707-44f57362f692 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/07/updated-g-o-d-plays-bit-part-first-gop-debate 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 as a member of the Bloomberg Foundation’s board of… Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:30:56 EDT Daniel Schultz 0a696e91-5fae-48f9-8e82-59c3551bcc61 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/ignoring-pope-climate-change-not-using-contraception 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 least in the United States, remain controversial. Much digital ink… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:55:52 EDT Kevin M. Lowe a52708b6-1eaf-47ce-b7ed-171c17c02bb9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/numbers-jeb-opposes-francis-climate-change-his-peril 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 job better than he does. It’s particularly… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:43:59 EDT Daniel Schultz c9f5c31e-09dc-4434-892c-285b720120ec https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/28/rubio-confused-about-christianity-marriage-equality-and-constitution Marco Rubio went on television with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody and suggested that Christianity is on the verge of being labeled “hate speech.” If you’re scratching your head, you’re not alone. Rubio’s rambling statement botched a simple understanding… Thu, 28 May 2015 11:56:18 EDT Sarah Posner f284b5cd-740d-4c17-95b1-bfd05537c044 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/31/jeb-bush-confused-about-religious-freedom Jeb Bush is defending Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s faulty defense of his state’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like Pence, Bush is wrong, but Bush’s elaboration laid bare his considerable confusion about the issue. The Washington Post reports: “I… Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:30:37 EDT Sarah Posner 1748885d-3125-4e85-9c12-27ea96c374e9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/11/evangelicals-want-immigration-reform-why-wont-republicans-listen Lifeway Research, which conducts surveys on evangelical attitudes on a variety of issues, released a new poll today, finding that a majority of evangelicals want to see Congress pass immigration reform. The survey, conducted on behalf of the Evangelical Immigration… Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:06:56 EDT Sarah Posner 08632193-472b-47fe-9b32-7636d778020f https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/17/pope-francis-brokers-end-cuba-embargo-despite-opposition-catholic-pols There will be much debate surrounding today’s announcement of the normalization of relations between Cuba and the US, but I hope the voices of the Cuban and Cuban-American people will be heard. While politicians like Marco Rubio, Mario Díaz-Balart, and… Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:31:05 EST Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado d690d4e9-44e9-4f24-aac2-93f064befe7b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/19/rubio-leaves-science-theologians-or-free-market-or-something Aspiring presidential candidate doesn’t know the age of the earth. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:58:19 EST Sarah Posner 44d19b7d-9cf5-4cb9-81a8-9ef35bcec2f7