Christian nationalists keep forgetting what the country’s founders kept writing down. Let us pray: In 1774, the First Continental Congress opened with a prayer—a decision that inspired some sectarian ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a press conference on Monday, June 23, 2025, in Austin. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick argued "there is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state' in the ...

(RNS) — The leader of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission said that church and state separation is a falsehood at the group’s final meeting, drawing criticism from an advocacy group ...

Family separation has become embedded into the cultural fabric of Latinos in the United States and can manifest itself in different ways across time and space, according to many researchers. This ...

The Religious Liberty Commission, which Trump established through an executive order in May, held its final hearing April 13 at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Echoing themes from past ...

Veterans, military family members and advocates support the PACT Act, a bill designed to help millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service, at the Capitol in ...

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The Senate Doesn’t Need a Change in Rules. It Needs a Change in Behavior Ro Khanna’s Israel Stunt Bring Back the Founders’ Senate Why Europe’s Green Entrepreneurial State Went Bust The Left Goes After ...

Many people know Thomas Jefferson's phrase about a "wall of separation between church and state." Fewer know how that phrase entered constitutional law. It's a curious story, which I discuss in a new ...

The separation of young children from their parents happens for many reasons, including death, divorce, incarceration, natural disasters, and immigration policy. The circumstances that disrupt or ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from replacing the US’ top copyright official as the fight over executive branch firings and President Donald Trump’s use of ...