Civil Liberties

Losing Our Civil Religion

Trump’s unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority.

By John D. Carlson

Masterpiece Cakeshop: Meet the Christian Legal Group Behind the High-Profile Court Case

Alliance Defending Freedom has become one of the most influential legal interest groups in the United States.

By Daniel Bennett

Charlottesville, Exodus, and the Politics of Nostalgia

We may never reach the Promised Land, but we will become a better nation by remaining on the journey.

By Rachel Wheeler

White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy

To be silent or to engage in false equivalencies is to be complicit in the growth of this noxious fascism.

By Marie Griffith

How One Purist Tried to Save the Religious Right from the Republicans

Then, as now, the movement largely chose relevance, thinking it was better to be a power player accused of hypocrisy than to be uncompromised, but irrelevant.

By Daniel Silliman

How American Jews Became Israeli Settlers

In a new book, “City on a Hilltop,” historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn tries to understand what brought Americans Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth—and how their presence there shapes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By Michael Schulson