The stop-Sanders movement is coalescing around Joe Biden, writes Robert David Sullivan, but is it too late? Super Tuesday may provide the answer.
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Are Democrats religious? How the public views the candidates’ faith lives
The only Democratic candidate whom a majority of poll respondents viewed as very or somewhat religious is former Vice President Joe Biden, who appeared at public events on Ash Wednesday with ashes on his forehead.
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Super Tuesday is a week away. Here are 6 takeaways from Bernie’s win in Nevada.
Bernie Sanders may yet unify the Democrats, writes Robert David Sullivan, but there are still questions about what to do if most primary voters oppose him.
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Bernie breaks the primary system, and other takeaways from New Hampshire
Sanders is the weak Democratic frontrunner after Iowa and New Hampshire, writes Robert David Sullivan, and his divide-and-conquer strategy may not work forever.
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Five Takeaways from ‘Querida Amazonia’
The document will delight some and disappoint others.
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Monty Python and the 7 early takeaways from Iowa
We still do not have the official results from the Iowa caucuses, writes Robert David Sullivan, but we have lessons to learn from the fiasco.
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T.P.S. was meant to protect immigrants from global danger zones. Now thousands may face deportation
The Department of Homeland Security chose not to redesignate Somalia as a T.P.S.-eligible state, a move sought by advocates. Jill Marie Bussey, advocacy director for Clinic, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, called that decision “senseless and cruel.”
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Can Catholic school hair grooming standards be discriminatory?
Disputes regarding the enforcement of hair grooming standards at religious schools require application of fundamental church-and-state principles that are unique to the United States.
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Explainer: The difference between impeachment in the Senate and a criminal trial
Despite the conceptual similarities, a Senate trial, formally referred to as a Court of Impeachment, is fundamentally different from a standard trial.
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What is the Vatican’s response to Trump’s attack on Iran?
On “Inside the Vatican” this week, hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the Holy See’s reaction to the U.S. drone strike that claimed the life of Qassim Soleimani and look back at the similarities between this attack and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.