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Racist undercurrents in Gen. Kelly’s Civil War opinions run deep in the strand of American Evangelicalism that helped elect Trump.

Okay, we’re off to the races on what the White House and GOP Congressional leadership agree is their “do or die” effort to look vaguely credible, having struck out so far on repealing Obamacare and…

One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the Politico interview with John Boehner concerns the time when Boehner was pushing Rep. Paul Ryan to take the speakership: Ryan never wanted the…

Given the amount of information we process on a day-to-day basis, paying attention to minutiae is difficult. The small things pass us by; we miss detail and texture. Given news and ecological change…

Author Erik Love answers RD’s 10 Questions

Editors from the International Press Institute told American journalists “that Donald Trump’s hostility toward the free press is emboldening dictators and autocratic leaders across the globe.” Human…

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section dedicated to the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation are actually about the role of…

What inspired you to write Why Horror Seduces? The book is based on years of research, but it grows out of personal curiosity and fascination. What’s with all the monsters and scary stories in popular…

Confession: I hold an ordination from a denomination that, broadly speaking, does not ordain women. I have benefited greatly from this ministerial minority status. It propelled me forward in attending…

Since January, opening email yields at least one urgent call to action from any number of progressive groups. As a journalist who’s spent the better part of a decade reporting on the LGBT community, I…