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Tami Chappell / Reuters The Pope's Groundbreaking Rejection of the Death Penalty
In a revised version of the Catechism, the punishment is deemed unacceptable in all cases.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Trump Administration Convenes the ‘Super Bowl’ of Religious Freedom
The event has sent a strong message that the U.S. wants to spread democratic values—if only the president will cooperate.
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Rodger Mallison / Star-Telegram / AP Even Never Trump Evangelicals Might Be Swayed by the Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is one sign of unity among divided denominations.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh Has GOP Bona Fides—and a Controversial Record
Trump's Supreme Court pick faces a brutal nomination fight ahead.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The GOP’s 'Unbelievably Absurd' Response to Santa Fe
Anything-but-the-guns mentality has reared explanations that even fellow Republicans find unnerving.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The End of Trump Won't Be the End of Trumpism
A new book—tweeted out by the president himself—argues that America is in the midst of a populist realignment.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Celebration in Jerusalem, Bloodshed in Gaza
The new American embassy opens during a chaotic and violent week in the Middle East—and it's just the beginning.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters There’s More to Being Jewish Than Fighting Anti-Semitism
A new book looks at the fight against resurgent hatred in Trump’s America, but its prescriptions can’t address the other crisis facing American Judaism.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats
She dismisses those who tell her to step aside, but at this rate she will harm her political future and aid the GOP.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters A Cassandra Cry Against Pope Francis
Ross Douthat's views on the pope are intensely unpopular. But has he identified a fundamental tension in the Church?
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Horace Cort / AP King's Message of Nonviolence Has Been Distorted
In order to evaluate what Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance of nonviolence has contributed to our current view of protest, it bears noting that the concept of his nonviolence has been flattened.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP How Home-State Pronunciations Can Shape Elections
As an expression of “in-group” identity in American politics, how politicians say a state’s name can be powerfully symbolic.
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AP A Modest Plea for Patriotic History
If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Should Pro-Life Clinics Have to Post Information About Abortion?
The Supreme Court will consider the rights of crisis pregnancy centers, which help women “imagine what the choice of life would be like.”
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AP Hillary Clinton's Trickle-Down America
While they may be thriving economically, coastal cities thrive on income inequality and a politically powerless underclass.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Trump Is Remaking Evangelicalism
A new book shows the fracture lines the 45th U.S. president has created within American Christianity.
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Charles Sykes / Invision / AP The Women's March Has a Farrakhan Problem
The group refuses to be accountable for a high-level alliance with an open anti-Semite.
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Don Petersen/ AP What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture
I carry a weapon—and it’s tied me closer to my community.
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Stringer France / Reuters Billy Graham, the Great Uniter, Leaves Behind a Divided Evangelicalism
The preacher, dead at 99, advised presidents, mentored clergy, and influenced millions of people. Will his legacy of non-partisan outreach continue?
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Lenny Ignelzi / AP It's Not Illegal Immigration That Worries Republicans Anymore
The Trump-era GOP cares more about the national origin and race of immigrants than the methods they used to enter the United States.
