Christmas’s War on America
The persistence and power of the December holiday over generations of Americans—whether they liked it or not
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Charles Sykes / AP What Donald Trump Doesn't Understand About American Mosques
The real-estate tycoon made his reputation by building glorious structures—so why is he threatening to shutter houses of worship?
Matthew Holst / AP The American Pope
Francis may be the first pontiff from the New World, but heirs to St. Peter’s throne have long loomed large in the American imagination.
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The power in the president’s eulogy for Clementa Pinckney came not from his singing, but from the silence that preceded it.
The Barbed Wire Sutra
Buddhism, initially seen as a threat to national security, gained acceptance through the patriotism and sacrifice of its adherents in the Second World War.
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