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The war on Christmas, it’s been well documented, is not a real thing. Though there are disputes about whether or not it’s rude to say “Merry Christmas” to the less than 10 percent of Americans who don…

Gambia: President, Foreign Minister Portray Anti-Gay Persecution as Defense of Islam, Africa We have reported previously on Gambia’s viciously anti-gay president Yahya Jammeh. Buzzfeed’s Lester Feder…

According to a new PRRI poll, 60% of white evangelicals “ support the goals of Obama’s executive action” on immigration (which isn’t too far below the nation at large, at 72%). Yet 67% of white…

Episode 2 By The Numbers: Crying Meltdowns: 4 Fights: 1 Bottles of Wine Consumed: 1 Incidents of Twerking: 1 “We’re All Broken,” the title of Episode Two of “The Sisterhood,” reminds me of a poem…

After the failure yesterday of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who was videotaped choking Eric Garner to death, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics…

Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times Upshot blog dismantles the myth of the 50% divorce rate (emphasis mine): It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages…

Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.

In case you were worried that the Koch Brothers were just money-grubbing industrialists hell-bent on excavating the ever-growing income gap between the one percent and everyone else, it turns out you…