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For years, now, the press has been beating down the door of Judy Dushku, a Mormon feminist, global women’s rights activist, and professor at Suffolk University. It was Dushku who during Romney’s Senate run in 1994 broke the now infamous story of Romney’s pressuring a woman in…

A lesson in religion reporting.

All the invocations of God’s name and snippets of the Bible and Nuns On the Bus and what have you can’t really help the Democrats so long as the larger religiously-tinged framing about what’s good and what’s bad remain untouched.

Mormons lined up to attest to the candidate’s humanity, but our collective story gets no airtime.

How many men do you know, Mr. Oparowski asked, that would take the time out of their busy schedule to visit a boy like David? My answer is almost every single one (and women, too). Having been raised Mormon in the heart of Salt Lake City I recognize Mormonism’s tremendous organizational imprint on Mitt’s life; his experiences echo those of my parents and grandparents, cousins, neighbors, and even my own.

Why old actors need scripts.

The unspoken theology at the Convention.

Now that the Convention’s over, time to ask the real questions about Romney’s faith and politics.

A bloggingheads debate.

Will Mitt’s more likable half use her prominence to help her LDS sisters?