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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.
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Eric Gay / AP The Government Gets Into the Church-Rebuilding Business
A provision tucked into the budget bill requires FEMA to treat religious institutions like other nonprofits.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Case for a Big, Beautiful Military Parade
Few of the troops serving today have experienced the adulation and respect that can come from a major, national-level parade.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Didn’t the White House See Domestic Violence as Disqualifying?
That the president’s staff was unable to recognize the seriousness of the allegations against Rob Porter may reflect how many members of his team have faced similar claims—including Trump himself.
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Robert Franklin / AP Notre Dame Switches Its Position on Birth-Control Coverage—Again
The university will bar “abortion-inducing drugs” from its insurance plans but begin covering “simple contraceptives,” a move its president calls a “complex decision.”
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Carrie Antlfinger / AP Paul Nehlen Is an Anti-Semitic Clown
Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin primary challenger has made a sport out of trolling Jews on Twitter—and successfully won attention for his extreme views.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Assault on the Body of the Church’
Catholic parishes have been hit hard by President Trump’s decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans.
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Courtesy of March for Life Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America's most contentious debates.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Trump Backs Health-Care Workers Who Object to Providing Abortions
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new office devoted to conscience objections and religious freedom on Thursday—an answer to long-standing objections from the right.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
