The great replacement theory and its undisguised racism have horrified all but the most right-wing political leaders.
Robert David Sullivan
Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine. From 2013 to 2016 he wrote a political column called (Un)Conventional Wisdom.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why Americans don’t understand polling on Roe v. Wade
Confusing questions are endemic in public opinion surveys, but the topic of abortion is especially tricky for pollsters.
Posted inMedia, Politics & Society
The most-viewed stories of 2021: the Latin Mass, Pope Francis vs. EWTN and Covid-19 (again)
Covid-19, the 2020 election and racial justice remained hot topics in 2021. But the past year also brought new debates within the Catholic Church, including over the Latin Mass.
Posted inFaith, News
Survey: A third of young Catholics expect to attend Mass less often after the pandemic
Nearly three-quarters of young U.S. Catholics say they can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, according to a new CARA survey.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Survey: Priests in the U.S. are divided on politics and Pope Francis. But most agree the state of the church is ‘not so good.’
The survey also found a perception that younger priests are “more theologically conservative or orthodox than their older counterparts.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
Democracy in ‘America’: Our coverage of U.S. politics since the rise of Donald Trump
A month before this Independence Day, a group of 100 scholars warned about “the recent deterioration of U.S. democracy.” America has been covering this topic from all angles; here are highlights from our archives.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New poll: QAnon embraced by 11 percent of white Catholics and 15 percent of all Americans
According to a new P.R.R.I.-I.F.Y.C poll, 15 percent of U.S. adults—including 16 percent of Hispanic Catholics and 11 percent of white Catholics—agree with a core belief of the QAnon movement.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis is worried about population decline. The U.S. will need more pro-family and pro-immigrant policies to continue to grow.
In April the Census Bureau estimated that from 2010 to 2020, the U.S. population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s and at the second-slowest rate in the nation’s history.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Biden’s vow to ‘cut child poverty in half’ is ambitious. But is it ambitious enough?
While the overall child poverty rate may be historically low after a recovery from the pandemic, there are more specific measures of economic vulnerability for children that are still alarming.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Why do white Catholics have such a high vaccination rate? Is it faith or education?
About two-thirds of white U.S. Catholics are accepting of the Covid vaccine—a higher rate than any religious group other than Jews. But it is unclear whether the high vaccination rate is a matter of faith or of demographics.