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This week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus is a mailbag special in which Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern answer ...
A cluster of books from religion publishers arrives in time to meet the queasy stomachs and souls so many face in today’s ...
The topic of religious freedom is personal for me,” said Elder Marcus B. Nash, a General Authority Seventy, at BYU’s recent ...
The ruling affirmed parents’ rights to opt their children out of reading materials that conflict with their religious beliefs ...
"It's about politics, it's about religion, it's about life," Lemon, 58, says about the book over a Zoom call from Chicago, where he's just waking up ahead of a day covering the Democratic National ...
A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.
The latest decision is a major legal win for religious interests at the conservative high court, and blurs the line that once ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2025, declined to hear two cases involving political speech in public schools, including one centered on a student who alleges he was bullied and harassed by ...
Book banning has been a prevalent topic in schools across the country in recent years due to political, social and religious tensions when discussing what is considered age-appropriate for reading ...
The consequences of elevating politics to a religion are all around us. A central element to all fundamentalist religions is dogma. ... In his prescient 1992 book Technopoly, ...
In the kid’s book “Prince & Knight,” the handsome prince falls in love not with a princess, but with the knight. Some parents want to opt out of that story.
The bottom line: Religion events and trends draw intense news coverage when they are directly or indirectly linked to politics. This is especially true during tense elections.