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Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism and Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.

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May 10, 2022

Katherine Stewart

How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights

Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft decision, steeped in authoritarian strains of religious dogma, is a road map for further erosions of the liberties all Americans enjoy.

January 10, 2022

Katherine Stewart

The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie

How the Christian nationalist movement’s well-funded strategists are aiming at voters in Virginia and beyond for 2024

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April 9, 2021

Katherine Stewart

The Supreme Court’s Religious Persecution Complex

Under the guise of “religious liberty,” the conservative justices are privileging certain Americans at the expense of the rest of us.

March 9, 2021

Katherine Stewart

How Big Money Is Dividing American Catholicism

A schism in the faith between liberals and conservatives is being exacerbated by a group of plutocrats.

August 13, 2020

Katherine Stewart

Betsy DeVos’s Plot to Enrich Private Schools Amid the Pandemic

The secretary of education wants religious schools to flourish at the public system’s expense; and she’s doing it under the cover of the coronavirus crisis.

March 2, 2020

Katherine Stewart

Faith Militant

How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

Katherine Stewart

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