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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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Alexandra Rose Howland 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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Oliver Munday Abolish the Priesthood
To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Health and Human Services and the Religious-Liberty War
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is pitting religious freedom against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
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Courtesy of HarperCollins / The Atlantic Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits
The firebrand writer died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 37.
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Eranga Jayawardena / AP How Sri Lanka’s Christians Became a Target
The island nation’s religious minority was rarely threatened. The Easter bombings changed that.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Young Activists Are Done With Loyalty Tests. Donald Trump Is Not.
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is part of a new generation that rejects demands for performances of patriotism, including those related to 9/11.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
The religious left has gotten giddy about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but campaign infrastructure and policy matter more than rhetoric.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters AIPAC Is Losing Control of the Narrative on Israel
American Jews are very uncomfortable with Trump, but the pro-Israel lobby has embraced him wholeheartedly.
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Lexey Swall A Secret Database of Child Abuse
A former Jehovah's Witness is using stolen documents to expose allegations that the religion has kept hidden for decades.
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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.
