Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought ...

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images ...

Talia Lavin is a journalist, author, and sword collector. Her book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, is available through Hachette.

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration ...