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Religion

Trump? Faith? Seriously?

Yes, these authors purport to argue that Trump is a man of faith. Or he’s working on it. Or something.

By Charles P. Pierce

Summer 2018, No. 49 – 13 MIN READ

God and Climate

In the mid-2000s, progressives courted evangelicals to join the fight against climate change. It worked—for a while.

By Lydia Bean Steven Teles

Spring 2016, No. 40 – 32 MIN READ

Laissez Prayer

The secret history of the 1950s Christian right and its zeal for capitalism.

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Fall 2015, No. 38 – 16 MIN READ

Faithless

The postwar liberal intellectuals built a political cosmology that rejected religion. But it was still fiercely moral.

By Molly Worthen

Spring 2014, No. 32 – 18 MIN READ

God and Woman at Wasilla

Remember when religious populism walked hand-in-hand with economic populism? Neither does Sarah Palin.

Spring 2010, No. 16 – 14 MIN READ

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