Emma Green
The Jews of Pittsburgh Bury Their Dead
Jewish tradition teaches that bodies cannot be left alone. The community has come together to guard the victims of Saturday’s shooting.
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Frank Franklin II / Associated Press ‘This Could Have Been Their 9/11 Moment’
A generation of young American Muslims is coming of age in a time when a mass shooting at a mosque is horrifying, but not surprising.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Fight Over Ilhan Omar Is a Fight Over the Identity of the Democratic Party
A House vote on bigotry underscored powerful changes in the party’s coalition, including among young Muslims.
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Sid Hastings / AP Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
The mainline denomination voted on Tuesday to toughen its teachings against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ clergy. It must now decide whether it will stay together.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble
A significant minority seldom or never meet people from another race, and they prize sameness, not difference.
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Steve Helber / AP Abortion Is Already Shaping Up to Be a Hot 2020 Issue
Republicans are relishing a fight after bills in New York and Virginia sought to expand late-term abortion access.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / ... Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley has spent decades cleaning up after pedophile priests. Now he's once again found himself in the middle of a crisis.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ilhan Omar Just Made It Harder to Have a Nuanced Debate About Israel
The Minnesota congresswoman has given credence to caricatures of critics of Israel.
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How Should Americans Tackle Anti-Semitism?
Hatred against Jews is on the rise around the world, including in the United States.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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Jeffrey McWhorter / AP Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians
In a new book, a black evangelical challenges his white counterparts to take full responsibility for their complicity in racism, and to commit to changing America.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Women Are Not a Monolith
Women from around the country will march this weekend. But they won’t all be marching together.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters There’s a Way for Democrats to Sue Trump—Thanks to the Republicans
A lawsuit to block the border wall could go the route the House GOP took in 2014 to challenge Obamacare.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump's Proposed National Emergency
With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law—revealing the massive power of the American executive.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Evangelical Mega-donors Are Rethinking Money in Politics
In recent years, Christianity has become publicly associated with conservative political causes. Some wealthy Christians are pushing back.
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Alex Brandon Trump’s Evangelical Advisers Could Help Him Secure a Win on Sentencing Reform
Conservative Christian leaders are a major force behind criminal-justice legislation being considered in the Senate. But black and progressive clergy see danger in allying with the president, even on this issue.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Evangelical Allies Really Didn’t Like Jeff Sessions
The ousted attorney general managed to alienate Christians across the political spectrum, even though he’s one of their own.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Democrats’ Most Radical Election Victory Was in the States
Their wins could help them secure national victories in the coming years.
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Charlie Riedel / AP The Year of the Woman Still Leaves Women With Terrible Representation in Government
Female candidates were some of the biggest winners in the 2018 midterms, but women have a long way to go before their success becomes unremarkable for how normal it is.
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Matt York / AP Why Americans Don’t Vote
A dispatch from the lowest-turnout district in the United States illustrates why many people won’t go to the polls on Tuesday.
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Courtesy of Felicia French National Politics Has Taken Over America
Democrats are finally investing in state-level elections. But candidates in those races face big obstacles in trying to get voters to care.
