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I was happy to let the story pass under the radar and to move on, but I felt, as a journalist, I needed to set the record straight.

Inherit the Wind’s creationist protesters may have held signs reading “I’m not descended from a monkey,” but the reality is that apes permeate our myths, religion, and literature precisely because it’s so obvious we’re related. Darwin may have provided the mechanism, but our own eyes tell us that there’s something eerily human in the eyes of our closest simian ancestors.

After all the uproar over Jeff Sessions’ use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the U.S. border, you might be tempted to bet against administration members citing scripture.

We are all like Sanders and other conservative white evangelicals insofar as we all have confirmation bias, making it difficult for us to accept evidence contrary to what we already believe, but the history and faith practices of white evangelicals offer an additional set of tools of belief.

Under Trump, civil religion has been broadly redefined to mean that the United States is exclusively shaped by and for white Christians.

Black women are more likely to be employed in public-sector jobs than both white women and Black men, while making 60 cents to the dollar of white men.

Basic to developing new analytical frameworks for studying neofascism is the need to rethink the definition of populism.

There is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.”

This view of government did not spring into existence with this administration or with the Truth Project—Focus users have been learning it for decades.