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Emma Green is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers politics, policy, and religion.
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Press Play special: Kavanaugh and this moment in politics CNN reports that President Trump will order a one-week investigation of allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. We ask what the nomination, hearing, and aftermath may mean for the November midterm election.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What were antiquities from Iraq doing at Hobby Lobby? In 2010, Hobby Lobby’s owners bought thousands of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts with religious significance. Those items had been illegally smuggled out of Iraq through the United Arab Emirates and Israel. That’s according to a settlement the company reached with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this week.
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Trump and the GOP take White House victory laps HOUSE REPUBLICANS PASS BILL TO REPEAL OBAMACARE Recovering from an embarrassment just six weeks ago, House Republicans today barely managed to pass a new bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. It was 217 to 213 with no votes to spare.
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The coming fight over 'religious liberty' Get ready to hear more a lot more about religious issues in 2017. White religious voters in large part helped Donald Trump win the White House. Early this year, the Trump Administration, backed by a Republican Congress, will take up pending religious liberty questions in all three branches of government.
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Are Jews white?: Questions of identity and power With Donald Trump’s election, seemingly settled questions about race and identity have been re-opened. White nationalists and members of the “alt-right” have very particular opinions about whether Jews are white.
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Richard Diebenkorn at Weisman Museum at Pepperdine Hunter Drohojowska-Philp welcomes a show of previously unseen paintings.
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LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last? Thirty-one thousand LAUSD teachers, nurses, librarians, and counselors went on strike this morning. They want a salary increase, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more staff. The district says it can’t afford all that. We see what happened on the picket lines.