Charlie Sykes: This is where the G.O.P.’s Faustian bargain has led. Their moral compromises and tolerance of President Trump‘s racism have become a habit.

The Editors: These comments need to be called out as racist, xenophobic and sexist.

Father James Martin was among the religious leaders testifying to members of the Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights worldwide, about a surge in reported hate crimes.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, as he became known, was a firm believer of religious liberty and an American Catholic pioneer, but his toleration of slavery was a failure of the greatest magnitude.

As researchers report a nationwide surge in hate crimes, a bipartisan coalition in Congress is giving law enforcement funding to adopt both stronger hate crime policies and more accurate data collection.