Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought ...

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images ...

Talia Lavin is a journalist, author, and sword collector. Her book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, is available through Hachette.

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration ...

We Were Liars is the latest in a series of television shows about obscenely wealthy people’s lavish holiday accommodations and shenanigans, a genre Americans apparently can’t get enough of these days.

The Assemblies of God extended grace while demanding a modicum of accountability: a year-long preaching hiatus and two years of probation. In a move that would define the rest of his ministry, ...

Despite having followed this race for months—“don’t rank Cuomo” is less a Gotham-specific voter mandate than a lifestyle—I only learned Tuesday that Comrade I mean Candidate Zohran is the son of Dr.

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide. Though celebrated by the more than half ...

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between ...

Lisa Webster, a founding editor of Religion Dispatches, holds a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from Columbia University. She ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and ...