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A theological-historical reading of last night’s spectacle of politics, pain, and Trump’s “happy” ending.

In an NPR interview the morning after Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to pivot to something resembling presidential, national security advisor Seb Gorka declined to affirm that Islam is a religion, saying…

You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough to turn Ross Douthat into FDR. According to Douthat, the “slow burning social crisis” in America of low…

Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern published an important scoop on Friday, revealing that the U.S. Supreme Court had formally reprimanded two right-wing, anti-LGBTQ groups for misgendering the teenage…

Politico reported this week that the Trump administration is considering pulling the USA out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council last year created the UN’s first…

Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he…

From one evangelical pastor to another.

Some of the most egregious untruths told to CPAC attendees today, complete with accurate information to contradict the claims made

What looks at first like Republican gullibility is really Fundamentalism’s century-long battle with expert knowledge.

It wasn’t Christianity that helped make Republican voters more likely to be duped, but susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism.