Civil Liberties
Essay
Conversion Isn’t a Ticket Out of White Supremacy
How white converts to Islam can reinforce anti-Muslim bias
By Anna Piela
Report
A Decade After the First Reason Rally, What Happened to America’s Atheist Revolution?
Avowed non-believers are becoming more common in politics.
By Aysha Khan
Essay
Dobbs and Fetal Personhood
The uncertain status of unborn life in Dobbs offers an opportunity to Americans who will now be forced to discuss the morality and law of abortion on the state level.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny
Essay
The Women Left Behind by the Pro-Life Movement
Could it be that in their quest to validate the personhood of an unborn child, the pro-life movement has diminished the personhood of a woman?
By Beth Allison Barr
Essay
The Supreme Court Is Decimating Public Education as a Common Good
When religious minorities embrace public money for their own private schools, they provide ample cover for white conservative Christians to decimate secular public education.
By Ronit Y. Stahl
Essay
Separation of Church and State Has Always Been Good for Religion
The decree of those six justices wasn’t just anti-American – it was also anti-religious.
By Ed Simon
Essay
Banning Nancy Pelosi from Communion May Have Backfired
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion in his San Francisco diocese. But his real showdown is with Rome and the other bishops.
By David Gibson
Essay
King and Today’s Global Democratic Struggles
King’s vision was for us to create a better democratic majority through protest and negotiations.
By Randal Maurice Jelks
Interview
Why Trump’s MAGA Resonates With White Christian Nationalism
Yale University sociologist Philip S. Gorski says that people “need to be prepared for what’s coming.”
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
Burka Enforcement and Burka Bans: Where Extremist Policies Meet
Enforcing and banning women’s choices about what they wear flow from the same root idea: paternalism towards women.
By Anna Piela