Civil Liberties
Report
Apocalypse Later: Millennial Evangelicals, Israel-Palestine, and the Kingdom of God
White evangelical Christians voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the recent presidential election, reaffirming the apparently unbreakable bond that has united conservative Christians and the …
By Nick Shindo StreetEssay
Who Are You Calling an Anti-Semite? Jewish Debate in Trump’s America
In a Vanity Fair article about the “post-election freak-out” at Columbia Prep, the school Barron Trump will continue to attend after the inauguration, Emily Jane …
By Moshe KornfeldEssay
Tracking Hate: Islam and Race After the Presidential Election
Reports from civilian and non-profit organizations, as well as news media, suggest that hate crimes have spiked since the presidential election.
By Ilyse R. Morgenstein FuerstInterview
The Quest for Confident Pluralism: An Interview with John Inazu
This election exposed America’s fissures. It feels as if we are in the midst of a political and cultural civil war.
By Gordon HaberEditor’s Note
Where Do We Go from Here?
The 2016 election is history, and several things are clearer to us now than they were before. It turns out that vast swaths of Americans …
By Marie GriffithEssay
The Revival of the Old Religious Right
The obituary of the old-guard Religious Right has been written many times over. But then Donald Trump won, and overwhelming numbers of white Christians helped carry him to victory.
By Tiffany StanleyInterview
How to Live Beyond this Election
On October 8, On Being host Krista Tippett moderated a conversation between poet Natasha Tretheway and interfaith activist Eboo Patel. Held on the eve of …
By The EditorsReport
In the Age of Trump, Muslim Voters Mobilize
Equipped with burner phones and laptops, the volunteers took their seats. A dozen voices echoed around the Muslim community space in Alexandria, Virginia, as they …
By Tiffany StanleyEssay
The New White Nationalists?
There’s a 1920s Klan pamphlet, The Menace of Modern Immigration, that is worth recalling in the lead-up to the current presidential election. Written by H.W. …
By Kelly J. BakerEssay
Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer Delusions
“We are better than this,” declares Marian Wright Edelman, the president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. “Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who …
By Charles Marsh