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I’m writing from Washington, D.C., where we are bracing for a historic blizzard that might dump more than two feet of snow on the area. Grocery and hardware stores are being emptied of food, batteries…

Mother Jones’ David Corn and Molly Redden report on the relationship between the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and the disgraced former leader of the Institute in Basic Life…

Was the former governor simply seeking a laugh or unwittingly invoking the Crusades?

But Mormons aren’t the only ones calling the faithful to prayer.

Will she miss her date with destiny?

Game Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party.

Why are we surprised?

The “Palin Whisperer” breaks it down.

The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.

Franklin Graham, panderer to the most powerful (and most conservative) members of the GOP, revives Obama as Muslim lie.