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September 24, 2015
The New Republic Staff
Live Blog: Pope Francis's Address to Congress
September 23, 2015
Alex Shephard
A Conservative's Guide to Undermining Pope Francis
September 23, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Religious Freedom Has No Place in Hospitals—Even Catholic Ones
September 22, 2015
The New Republic Staff
Popes in America: 50 Years of Papal Visits
September 22, 2015
Jeet Heer
Conservatives to Pope Francis: Stick With Salvation. We’ll Handle Politics.
September 21, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pope Francis’s Radical Authenticity Is Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
In these turbulent times, he's gained mass appeal with a simple message
September 21, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Pope Francis Can't Save the Planet
September 11, 2015
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Falling Asleep in the Afterlife
Why are books about visiting heaven so boring—and popular?
September 3, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Can the Evangelical Left Rise Again?
August 17, 2015
Steve Oney
A Distant Mirror: The Leo Frank Lynching
How a century-old crime foreshadowed today's polarized politics.
August 11, 2015
Jennifer Percy
At War in the Garden of Eden
Christian fighters, ISIS invaders, and the fight for Iraq’s Nineveh Plains
August 7, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Christian Republicans Can't Agree on Who Deserves Our Government's Compassion
August 4, 2015
Sam Tanenhaus
Sex, Lies, and the Internet
Jonathan Franzen’s reckoning with his literary inheritance
August 3, 2015
William Wheeler
The Jihadist of Copenhagen
Why a young man in one of the happiest countries on earth committed a brutal act of terrorism
July 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pope Francis Against the World
The backlash from liberals and conservatives alike is good for his mission
July 26, 2015
Jamil Smith
Bobby Jindal’s Opiate for the Masses
The Louisiana governor made prayer his first priority after the Lafayette shooting. That’s not nearly enough.
July 17, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Feminists Should Not Give Up on Pope Francis
He's no Amy Schumer, but that's okay.
July 13, 2015
Heath W. Carter
The Church of Organized Labor
Scott Walker's evangelical faith and union-busting do not go hand in hand
July 10, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Your Right to Die Isn’t Enough
The ethics and morality of assisted suicide
July 1, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Christian Case for Vaccinating Children

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