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Michelle Gustafson The Fight to Make Meaning Out of a Massacre
Pittsburgh’s synagogue shooting was the deadliest attack on Jews on American soil. Over the past year, community members have struggled to do something constructive with their tragedy. But they have been divided on whether politics should guide their reaction.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Trump Administration Sides With Nurses Who Object to Abortion
HHS says the University of Vermont Medical Center required staffers to violate their conscience. The case underscores Trump’s religious-freedom agenda.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Planned Parenthood Makes a Huge Bet
The women’s-health organization will stop taking money from Title X, a government family-planning program, in light of a new rule that bars doctors from making referrals for abortion procedures.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Trump Has Enabled Israel’s Antidemocratic Tendencies at Every Turn
The president tweeted that Israel should ban Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country. Now Israel has barred the women from visiting.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy
A new rule would allow federal contractors to make hiring and firing decisions based on their religious beliefs and practices.
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Jim Watson / AFP /Getty Kirsten Gillibrand Targets Biden’s Views on Women
The senator from New York tried to paint the former vice president as regressive, tapping into bigger questions about the Democratic Party’s identity heading into 2020.
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Lee Corkran / Sygma via Getty The Clarence Thomas Effect
The notoriously quiet Supreme Court justice has had a far-reaching influence on the personnel of the Trump administration, which may be his most lasting legacy.
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infinity21 / Everette Historical / Shutterstock / The … Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
The small conservative magazine First Things aims to reclaim what has become a dirty word in the Trump era.
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Barry Thumma / AP Why Democrats Ditched the Hyde Amendment
There used to be a middle ground in the national conversation on abortion. Not anymore.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Joe Biden’s Tell on Abortion
The 2020 Democratic front-runner opposes federal funding for the procedure, in stark contrast to his rivals.
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Lizzie Gill The Epic Political Battle Over the Legacy of the Suffragettes
Activists on both sides of the abortion wars see themselves as inheritors of the early women’s movement—a history that’s become more contested than ever under Trump.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters On Praying for the President
Donald Trump’s controversial stop at a Virginia mega-church after a mass shooting showed how even normal Christian behavior has been scrutinized during this administration.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters 2020 Candidates Are Going All In on Abortion Rights
Democratic candidates are pushing their party further left than ever. Will this strategy cost them voters?
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Eric Gay / AP A Pastor’s Case for the Morality of Abortion
Jes Kast, a minister in the United Church of Christ, believes the procedure should be fully legal and accessible. Her path to that position has been complicated.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Measles Can Be Contained. Anti-Semitism Cannot.
Just as the anti-vaccination movement feeds off a handful of fringe outsiders, long-standing stereotypes about Jews have found a new vector in the latest outbreak of the disease.
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Alexandra Rose Howland The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
An ancient faith is disappearing from the lands in which it first took root. At stake is not just a religious community, but the fate of pluralism in the region.
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Nhac Nguyen / AFP / Getty Buddha Day Celebrations in Photos
Observations of Vesak, or Buddha Day, from several countries across Asia
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Oliver Munday Abolish the Priesthood
To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP Pope Francis Stops Hiding From the Church’s Sexual-Abuse Epidemic
The leader of the Catholic Church has issued rules creating worldwide accountability for reporting allegations of abuse. But he still faces deep cynicism from the body faithful.
