Emma Green
Will Anyone Remember 11 Dead Jews?
Eric Lidji is on a one-man mission to keep the Tree of Life massacre from becoming just another entry on a long list of mass shootings and anti-Semitic attacks.
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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.
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Mary Calvert / Reuters Leading, Just Not by Example
This week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom highlighted the tension between what the United States wishes to be and what it is.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Nationalists Take Washington
Prominent figures from Tucker Carlson to John Bolton gathered at the Ritz-Carlton to declare war on the conservative establishment and lay the groundwork for a new intellectual movement on the right.
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Lee Corkran / Sygma via Getty The Clarence Thomas Effect
The notoriously quiet Supreme Court justice has had a far-reaching influence on the personnel of the Trump administration, which may be his most lasting legacy.
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Brianna Pressey / The Atlantic When Your Pregnancy Is Political
A conversation with the anti-abortion activist Lila Rose about politicizing one of the defining moments of her life
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infinity21 / Everette Historical / Shutterstock / The ... Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
The small conservative magazine First Things aims to reclaim what has become a dirty word in the Trump era.
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Joe Buglewicz / AP / Paul Spella / ... Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy
The second night of the first Democratic debates focused on the American values that have been corrupted under Trump, in the view of the 2020 candidates.
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Joe Raedle, Jim Watson / Getty Democrats Avoided the Toughest Debate Questions on Abortion
In part one of the Democratic Party’s first primary debates, the candidates did not go deep on substance.
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Barry Thumma / AP Why Democrats Ditched the Hyde Amendment
There used to be a middle ground in the national conversation on abortion. Not anymore.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Joe Biden’s Tell on Abortion
The 2020 Democratic front-runner opposes federal funding for the procedure, in stark contrast to his rivals.
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Lizzie Gill The Epic Political Battle Over the Legacy of the Suffragettes
Activists on both sides of the abortion wars see themselves as inheritors of the early women’s movement—a history that’s become more contested than ever under Trump.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters On Praying for the President
Donald Trump’s controversial stop at a Virginia mega-church after a mass shooting showed how even normal Christian behavior has been scrutinized during this administration.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters 2020 Candidates Are Going All In on Abortion Rights
Democratic candidates are pushing their party further left than ever. Will this strategy cost them voters?
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Eric Gay / AP A Pastor’s Case for the Morality of Abortion
Jes Kast, a minister in the United Church of Christ, believes the procedure should be fully legal and accessible. Her path to that position has been complicated.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Measles Can Be Contained. Anti-Semitism Cannot.
Just as the anti-vaccination movement feeds off a handful of fringe outsiders, long-standing stereotypes about Jews have found a new vector in the latest outbreak of the disease.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Why Trump Is Rolling Back LGBTQ Health-Care Protections
A culture-war fight is playing out in the courts and federal agencies.
