At a Senate session last week, Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat in Austin, stood outside the brass railing of the chamber floor to speak with a staffer when Republican Sen. Angela Paxton of McKinney ...

What’s the cost of aligning Christianity to division? As the political landscape grows ever more polarized, religious language has become a tool for framing debates in extreme, all-or-nothing terms.

There’s an image that captures the threat posed by the White Christian nationalist movement — and how it could become even more dangerous over the next four years. “If I get in, you’re going to be ...

A bill amending the Law for the Protection of Holy Places passed a preliminary vote, boosting the Chief Rabbinate’s authority and reigniting debate over religion, state power, and Diaspora ties. For ...