Infamous marriage-inequality enthusiast and former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis made headlines again this month when she ...

Adjudicated sexual abuser and aspirational tyrant Donald Trump announced twice this week that he is not a dictator, but if he ...

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among people whose ...

DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I'm looking forward to more deep dives into DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum’s ...

Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson died yesterday, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among queer people from ...

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Thomas Lecaque Thomas Lecaque is Associate Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, located on Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk lands. He has written for The Washington Post, ...

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda. And it ...

What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right? I really wanted to figure something out: what the surprising, strange, unexpected return ...

Perhaps one of the strangest instances of fake news that proliferated in the final months of the 2016 election was the conspiracy known as “Pizzagate.” Supposedly, a D.C. restaurant housed a ...

Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of ...