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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
