religious test

Questioning federal nominees on religion has been decried as a violation of the Constitution’s ban on religious tests. But not only does it do nothing of the kind, there’s good reason to think Article VI actually requires these questions.

Throughout our history there have been moral panics about the dangers posed by people from disparate religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds.

Historian John Ragosta details some of the strikingly similar issues over the proper place of religion and religious expression in a secular nation compromised of mostly religious individuals.

To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights, one might think that armies of secularists are swarming…

For the second time since her contentious hearing for an appellate court slot, the religious practice of Amy Coney Barrett has come into question, unleashing a firestorm about what what many call an…

The 2013 death of 83-year-old Duquesne University adjunct Margaret Mary Vojtko helped open up a national debate about the precarious lives of the estimated seven hundred thousand college faculty in…

Tearing a page from the “religious liberty” playbook, the ACLU contends that Trump’s travel ban violates core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Muslim ban masqueraded as a travel ban dramatizes the perpetual conflict between the essential America and the existential America.

The New York Times reports that Jessica Manning, a voter at a campaign stop in Knoxville, Iowa, asked Hillary Clinton how she could defend her choice to vote for the Democratic frontrunner to her…

An interview with journalist and activist Frederick Clarkson