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The Pioneer Institute was founded in 1988 to change the direction of public policy in Massachusetts by influencing opinion-shapers, policy-makers, and the public. Modeled on the conservative Manhattan…

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

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

The highway that leads from the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza back to the resort-lined coast of the Yucatan Peninsula runs straight through several small towns. And there beside the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Judas Tadeo a gargantuan lawn statue of La Santa Muerte—Mexico’s patroness saint of death—looms over the rest.

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.

How the religious right wants you to spend Halloween.

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.