Connecting.the.Dots

Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama today underscores how clearly and irreparably John McCain has split open the fault line in t...

With the struggle for his political soul between the Religious Right and Reagan Republicans settled by the choice of a running mate, there ...

If John McCain wants to protect his extreme flank, George Bush's favorite evangelist has a few suggestions. In an interview , Southern ...

If he had not been sidetracked in 2000 by the Bush-Rove smear machine , John McCain might have attracted enough Independents and so-called R...

After years of Bush's would-be and as-if leadership, American voters are choosing authenticity , albeit with a 24-year age gap and a wor...

On Meet the Press today , Mike Huckabee answered a question about punishing doctors for performing abortions: "I think if a doctor know...

The overhyped story of the 2008 elections so far is the role of the Religious Right in picking a GOP candidate, fueled by headlines about Hu...

As long as we have come this far in George Bush's undeclared theocracy and Mitt Romney's open endorsement this week, doesn't the...

He has painted himself into a corner and, no matter where Mitt Romney goes in tonight's speech on religion, he is going to leave messy ...

Pat Robertson, icon of the Religious Right, today endorsed a thrice-married, cross-dressing, pro-choice Catholic for President in 2008. ...

The former Arkansas Governor, a Baptist minister, is becoming everybody’s favorite conservative, except for the Religious Right. Arguably th...

Michael Gerson, my favorite Evangelical columnist, writes approvingly today about Hillary Clinton as “the most religious Democrat since Ji...