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Is Rand Paul a fringe candidate or a rising star in the Republican Party?

It’s not outlandish to see theological meaning in the drive to slash government spending for human services if we accept some version (no matter how secularized) of the concept of original sin.

The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.

Wisconsin energizes Dems’ base.

… and more. A discussion between Slate’s David Weigel and RD’s Sarah Posner.

Would classify trying to prevent harm to a fetus as “justifiable homicide.”

Making abortion illegal vs. making it unnecessary.

Investigating the origins of arithmetic paranoia.

The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?

Why deny someone dignity when you can deny them basic civil rights instead?