Law & Order
Interview
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 Haber
Editor’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 Griffith
Essay
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 Stanley
Essay
The Religious Right’s Power Grab: How Outside Activists Became Inside Operatives
Since a leaked 2005 Access Hollywood audiotape revealed Donald Trump bragging about how he sexually assaulted women—something he dismissed as “locker room banter”—more than a …
By Neil J. Young
Essay
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. Baker
Report
The Conflicted Catholicism of Tim Kaine
On a recent conference call with the voter outreach group Catholics for Hillary, vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine trotted out his faith credentials. He spoke …
By Megan Sweas
Essay
An Atheist for President?
When Donald Trump spoke to a group of evangelical leaders in New York early this past summer, he insinuated that Hillary Clinton’s Christian faith was …
By Leigh Eric Schmidt
Review
The Mormon Council of Fifty: What Joseph Smith’s Secret Records Reveal
In 1844, the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith surrendered himself to state authorities after destroying an anti-Mormon printing press in Nauvoo, Illinois. When he was sent …
By Benjamin E. Park
Interview
What Phyllis Schlafly Believed: An Unreleased Interview with the Late Anti-Feminist Activist
Phyllis Schlafly, who died yesterday at the age of 92, will long be remembered as one of the most politically consequential figures of her time. …
By Marie Griffith
Essay
Congressional Chaplains: Can They Welcome All Religions and No Religion at All?
This past spring, on the National Day of Prayer, the Freedom from Religion Foundation—a group that advocates for the separation of church and state—filed suit …
By Wendy Cadge