More Than a Third of Americans Have No Idea What the First Amendment Says
And 20 percent don't know atheists have the same rights as everyone else.
And 20 percent don't know atheists have the same rights as everyone else.
The paper says loosening rules "runs counter to the Trump administration's less-is-more credo about government meddling."
Friday A/V Club: Before his transition into the Nation of Islam
Attempting to create the impression that faithful Christians whose beliefs are at odds with newly sanctified cultural mores are incapable of doing their job.
Can states force religious bakers to provide services to same-sex couples?
Dissident and offbeat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.
Rather than advancing liberty, the controversial law establishes state-recognized beliefs.
Starting with Roe v. Wade, the bestselling author argues in Commentary, the high court has removed too many topics from legislative debate.
A rule is under review that would (reportedly) relax the hotly debated requirement.
For the millionth time, there's no "hate speech" exemption.
Faith, dogma, and the constant reinvention of U.S. foreign policy
Which is more important to the president: hurting Muslims or looking tough on terrorism?
A new study finds that 26 percent of Americans likely do not believe in God.
You may see yourselves as artists, but the state of Washington does not see bouquets as a form of expression.
Accommodating religious objections to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate does not violate anyone's rights.
Nearly half of young working-class whites do not identify with any religious affiliation.
The president's executive order on religious freedom lacks any sort of substance.
New draft of executive action does much less than rumored.
Should Congress be allowed to forbid a private voluntary treatment because it's bad and discredited?
We're not all the egoistic Ayn Rand acolytes the Catholic pontiff imagines.
Refusing any voluntary hysterectomies presented as discrimination.
This is why you shouldn't trust a man who has no principles of his own to do right by yours.
SCOTUS has delayed making a decision whether to tackle religious freedom claim.
When Nazi lawyers went looking for racial legislation to emulate, they turned to the United States.
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The justices could choose to look the other way because of the plenary power doctrine.
Muhammad cartoon publisher Flemming Rose talks about immigration, free speech, and toleration.
Utah's new bigamy law prescribes what people can call private relationships and provides authorities with a convenient tool for suppression when polygamist families get too vocal.
A U.C.L.A. law professor has a few things to say about things that aren't supposed to be said.
America is losing its soft power to spread liberal values
In the past five years, how many U.S. terrorist attacks were committed by jihadists?
Today's religious freedom controversies got their start in the 19th century debate over outlawing polygamy.
Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they're the ones under attack.
Trump's main goal is looking tough, not discomfiting Muslims.
What do gun bans and travel bans have in common?
Minnesota becomes the 39th state to allow Sunday liquor sales.
The Eurocentric paradox at the heart of American nationalism
SCOTUS unanimously upheld the ministerial exception five years ago. It's already being challenged again.