Emma Green
The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
An ancient faith is disappearing from the lands in which it first took root. At stake is not just a religious community, but the fate of pluralism in the region.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Just Don’t Call It Abortion
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have gone further in embracing abortion rights than ever before. But they still hide behind euphemism.
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Lennart Preiss / Getty Democrats: We’re the Real American Patriots
Tonight, candidates spoke passionately about protecting America’s troops and defending the Constitution. Are voters actually looking for a message of statesmanship?
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Shutterstock Your Neighbor’s Christian Education, Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars
The Court will hear one of the most notable “Church and state” cases in years.
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Jacquelyn Martin / Reuters The LGBTQ-Rights Movement Is Changing, and So Is the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court that will hear LGBTQ discrimination cases this week is radically different from the Court that legalized same-sex marriage four years ago.
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Andrew Chung / Reuters The Supreme Court Will Soon Test Its Commitment to Abortion Rights
In a new case, the justices will reconsider past decisions that have protected women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies.
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Michelle Gustafson The Fight to Make Meaning Out of a Massacre
Pittsburgh’s synagogue shooting was the deadliest attack on Jews on American soil. Over the past year, community members have struggled to do something constructive with their tragedy. But they have been divided on whether politics should guide their reaction.
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Win McNamee / Getty Beto O’Rourke’s Attempt to Shift the Overton Window on Guns
How Beto O’Rourke, a firmly second-tier candidate in the 2020 race, may move the Democratic conversation on guns after tonight’s debate in Houston
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KC McGinnis / Reuters Tearing Down the Myth of the Rural White Voter
A candid conversation with the Iowa-based writer and thinker Lyz Lenz, who believes that meeting your neighbor is the only solution
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Trump Administration Sides With Nurses Who Object to Abortion
HHS says the University of Vermont Medical Center required staffers to violate their conscience. The case underscores Trump’s religious-freedom agenda.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters Is Trump Destroying Bipartisan Consensus on Israel?
Two weeks of outrage and head-spinning news show that institutional unification on Israel has gotten much weaker under President Trump.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Planned Parenthood Makes a Huge Bet
The women’s-health organization will stop taking money from Title X, a government family-planning program, in light of a new rule that bars doctors from making referrals for abortion procedures.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump
The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.
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Lucy Jones America Moved On From Its Gay-Rights Moment—And Left a Legal Mess Behind
Half a decade after the Supreme Court’s same-sex-marriage decision, the justices and Congress are still trying to figure out what federal law should say about LGBTQ rights.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Trump Has Enabled Israel’s Antidemocratic Tendencies at Every Turn
The president tweeted that Israel should ban Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country. Now Israel has barred the women from visiting.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy
A new rule would allow federal contractors to make hiring and firing decisions based on their religious beliefs and practices.
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Callaghan O’Hare / Reuters What Conservative Pastors Didn’t Say After El Paso
Church leaders around the country largely deny any link between white-supremacist violence and their votes to “Make America great again.”
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Planned Parenthood’s Never-Ending Identity Crisis
Throughout its history, the organization has been split on whether abortion should be at the center of its public identity. The recent ouster of its president, Dr. Leana Wen, is a sign that the progressive wing of the abortion-rights movement is ascendant.
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Jim Watson / AFP /Getty Kirsten Gillibrand Targets Biden’s Views on Women
The senator from New York tried to paint the former vice president as regressive, tapping into bigger questions about the Democratic Party’s identity heading into 2020.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Democrats Battle Over the Past and Present of Immigration
The 2020 presidential candidates know they’re against Donald Trump, but they are sharply divided over what kind of enforcement should be used at the border.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Democrats Make the Case That They’re the Moral Party
Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson, and other 2020 hopefuls tried to frame domestic policy in broader terms.
