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

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

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

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 ...

You Might Not Recognize CALI Gubernatorial Candidate Che Ahn, But His Brand of Militant Christianity Should Feel Familiar ...

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 ...

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts for boot-cut jeans—and the new master race apparently shops at American Eagle. Because nothing says “the ...

Lauri Lebo is the author of The Devil in Dover: Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America, a book about the 2005 First Amendment trial of Kitzmiller v. Dover in which intelligent design was ruled ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is ...