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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Anti-Semitic logic fueled the violence over the weekend, no matter what the president says.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: 'Some Very Fine People on Both Sides'
The president backtracked from his remarks on Charlottesville just a day earlier.
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Stringer / Reuters 'Alt-Right' Leaders Won't Condemn Ramming Suspect
Two prominent white nationalist leaders held a press conference Monday in which they responded to the fallout from Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Alt-Right’s Rebranding Effort Has Failed
Some members attempted to pivot away from overt racism. Charlottesville shows that they were always white nationalists.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters How Will the Church Reckon With Charlottesville?
Religious communities are grappling with the racism that enabled violent attacks against protesters—including the racism within their ranks.
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Michael Stravato/AP Progressive Values Can't Be Just Secular Values
New polls suggest liberals have an increasingly negative view of religion, despite the fact that most Democrats—and Americans—are religious.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Eight Things Paul Ryan Has Learned About Governing
The speaker of the House had grand ambitions for the first 200 days of this Congress.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Wants to Preach
Religion is playing a big role in Clinton’s post-election tour. What does she have to gain from sharing her faith now?
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Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Getty The U.S. Government's Fight Against Violent Extremism Loses Its Leader
The resignation of George Selim, a key Homeland Security official, may signal a shift away from treating the American Muslim community as partners in the struggle against radicalization.
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Ted S. Warren / AP Are Campus Activists Too Dogmatic?
They often take an almost religious approach to politics, rooted in a belief in the irredeemable sin of America and its mainstream.
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AP Newark's Long Hot Summer
The circumstances that drove the city’s 1967 uprising still haunt America to this day.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Battle Over LGBT Discrimination Is Just Beginning
The Trump administration steps into an on-going legal battle over civil rights—and steps on another agency’s turf.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Transgender Ban Could Force Out Thousands of Service Members
The president’s announcement reverses the Obama-era plan to phase in the open participation of these Americans.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Much Discrimination Do Muslims Face in America?
Many are suspicious of those who practice Islam. Many more are trying to reach out.
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Kelley DeBettencourt / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... ‘We’re Headed Toward One of the Greatest Divisions in the History of the Jewish People’
A small, vocal group of Conservative rabbis is pushing the movement to accept marriages between Jews and non-Jews. The fight is really about the future of the religion.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Projection President
Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
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AP When the Nation's Capital Came Together for the MLB All-Star Game
In the throes of the Great Depression, residents and lawmakers rallied around the summer event.
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mikeledray / 21kompot / shutterstock / Katie Martin ... A Conservative Christian Battle Over Gender
Some communities agree that women shouldn’t be pastors. But their members fiercely debate every other kind of women’s empowerment.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Donald Trump Offers to Help Charlie Gard
The president of the United States stepped in to defend a British infant whose life support will be removed after European courts sided with doctors against his parents.
