I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To ...

Compared to Donald Trump’s prior term in office, the current Trump administration looks different. The gleefully ...

This adapted essay is based on excerpts from Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), which are reprinted with permission from the author and ...

At a press conference today responding to a question about the possibility of Democratic support for the Republican-written ...

During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans… ...

The fantasy realms of online gaming become even more surreal when religion enters the scene; imagine Batman going on pilgrimage to Mecca, or a virtual crucifixion, or massive Bibles, raining from the ...

Writing in The Atlantic on the disastrous February 28 meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Tom Nichols comments that Trump, “ambushed a loyal ally, presumably so that he ...

Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “[I ...

Religion Dispatches offers new ways to think about how religion works in (and on) American culture and politics. We invite an open discussion of religious ideas, communities, and practices, rooted in ...