Tag: religious right

If the latest polls are to be believed, Luther Strange is facing a steep climb to keep Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat in Alabama--even...

Almost from the time Donald Trump's upset victory in the presidential election was beyond doubt, the religious right has been warning us against opposing...

Ever since Donald Trump's upset victory, the religious right has gone overtime warning the nation against speaking out against him. Their explanation? Trump is carrying...

To hear Donald Trump's most diehard religious right supporters talk, there's a big reason the rest of the nation isn't joining them in bowing...

Days after the September 11 attacks, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson claimed the planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon because...

As of Labor Day weekend, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 37.5 percent. At risk of sounding like a...

These days, one of the sure things when a disaster strikes is that religious right leaders will open their mouths, stick in their feet,...

Abortion opponents like to say that they want to defend the sanctity of life. But it has been amply established that, at bottom, the anti-abortion...

When Donald Trump announced he was pardoning former Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, we knew that Trump's most diehard defenders would twist themselves...

As we know by now, the Donald Trump administration has ramped its war on the media into Defcon 1. But one collection of Trump's...

For some time, the religious right has been mounting a ham-handed bullying campaign to warn white evangelicals against joining the resistance to Donald Trump....

As of Monday afternoon, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, is 37.2 percent--easily the lowest on record for a newly-elected president...

On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 274 points--its second-worst day of the year, and its biggest one-day drop in over three months. By...

A number of my fellow left-leaning charismatic and pentecostal friends suspect that Donald Trump is being used by God--just not in the way that...

It's usually a lazy comparison, let's be honest. Ever since the dust thrown up by the 3.4 million tons of bombs that fell through the...

Earlier this week, we learned that we may have been about to witness one of the most outrageous moments in the aftermath of last...

The religious right would like us to believe that all it wants is to give Americans with "traditional values" a place at the table....

The religious right likes to portray itself as the nation's moral guardians. But earlier this week, we got perhaps the strongest evidence yet that...

It's been amply established that diehard supporters of Donald Trump live in an alternative universe. In this world, even when there is no doubt something...

No matter how he tries to convince himself--and us--Donald Trump is not winning. Not by a longshot. As of Friday night, FiveThirtyEight pegs his...