Tag: Religious Right
Donald Trump’s Christian Soldiers | The Nation
How important are white evangelical Christians to Donald Trump’s political fate and to the MAGA movement he inspired?
In both the 2016 and 2020 presidential cycles nearly half of Trump’s voters were white evangelical Christians—by far the most reliable bloc of voters in his electoral coalition.
In 2016, 135.5 million voters cast ballots for president. According to exit polls, 26 percent of them—35.2 million voters—identified themselves as white evangelical or born-again Christians. Trump got 80 percent of their votes—a total … Read more
At the Vote Pray Stand Summit, Christian Parents and Their “Rights” Take Center Stage
Christianity’s Place in the Left and the Right
The Movement Behind the Judge and the Junk Science Poised to Block Access to Mifepristone
The Cult of J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover, we’ve always assumed, became the most powerful unelected American of his time because he had the goods on everybody: the mistresses, financial shenanigans, and underworld connections of presidents who might fire him and legislators who might investigate him. Two new books about the longtime FBI chief make you realize that there was something else as well. Hoover’s half-century of immense influence rested
