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There’s lots of good stuff in the new PRRI/Brookings poll on immigration and cultural change released yesterday, including, oddly, a long section on voters’ views on terrorism, crime, and unemployment…

For technical reasons (damn you, Adobe Flash!) I was limited to monitoring the progress of the Congressional Democrats’ sit-in last night mostly by Twitter. Still, what I saw was fascinating, and…

Many people are questioning whether Donald Trump’s dominance in the GOP nominating process, and his dismissal of evangelical leaders like Russell Moore, spells the end of the religious right as a key…

@drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2016 In the space…

Donald Trump has a way of turning things topsy-turvy, and the religious world is certainly not exempt. The Southern Baptist Convention (or some of its leaders, anyway) have joined the Never Trump…

Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to once again declare the religious right to be dead. As in the past, reports of its death…

If pundits paid attention to evangelicals beyond their stances on moral values the popularity of Donald Trump among them might not be quite so inexplicable. Joining the chorus of voices from all over…

If last night’s debate revealed anything beyond the fact that, in the words of Lindsey Graham, the GOP is “batsh*t crazy” (and that Ben Carson thinks fruit salad is some type of divining instrument)…

A new poll from the Pew Research Center tells us, predictably enough, that Americans generally like their presidents to be “religious,” and that about half (more Republicans than Democrats) want…

After Barack Obama pointed out in a televised address on the San Bernardino shootings that Muslim Americans occupy many familiar social roles including “sports heroes,” Donald Trump offered an…