HHS Mandate
The Table
How about a “Do Over” for the HHS Mandate?
Editor’s Note: The comment period for the latest proposed accommodation to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to provide contraception coverage ended on April 8. We …
By Francis J. Manion
The Table
Rhetoric Versus Reality: The Contraception Benefit and Religious Freedom
Editor’s Note: The comment period for the latest proposed accommodation to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to provide contraception coverage ended on April 8. We …
By Elizabeth Sepper and Alisha Johnson
The Table
What Romney Wouldn’t Say
During his long pursuit of the presidency, three M-words rarely passed Mitt Romney’s lips: Massachusetts, Mandate, and Mormonism. This first two silent M’s were, at …
By Randall Balmer
The Table
The Cracks Beneath Obama’s Winning Coalition
Despite a flagging economy and energized opposition, President Obama assembled a winning coalition that delivered him a second term in the White House. Yet even …
By Matthew Schmitz
Profile
Meet Derrick Harkins, the Pastor Behind the Democratic Party’s Faith Outreach
CHARLOTTE — “Faith is an integral part of the Democratic Party,” the Reverend Derrick Harkins proclaimed Wednesday as he kicked off a panel on religion …
By Elizabeth Dias
Editor’s Note
What War on Religion?
In July of 1844, word reached New York that Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the LDS Church, had been murdered by a mob in Illinois. …
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
Fortnight for Freedom: Whose Religious Liberty?
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops kicked off their “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign almost two weeks ago, they chose an auspicious feast day to …
By Jessica Coblentz
Report
Everything You Need to Know About the HHS Mandate Before the 2012 Elections
The Obama administration was warned, but they never really saw it coming. When they announced in January they would not be expanding the conscience exemptions …
By Michael Sean Winters