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Emma Green is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers politics, policy, and religion.
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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. In a Rose Garden celebration Speaker Paul Ryan gave President Trump credit for what the GOP calls "the beginning of the end of Obamacare." But Democrats jeered the measure, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, "You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark." We hear more from Margot Sanger-Katz, who reports for the New York Times . TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER STOPS SHORT ON "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY" President Trump today made a gesture toward his base of support, which includes some 81% of white, evangelical Christians. At a National Prayer Day Celebration in the White House Rose Garden, he signed yet another executive order , announcing, "Under my administration, free speech does not end at the steps of the cathedral, or the synagogue – or any other house of worship. We are giving our churches their voices back." Staff writer Emma Green, who covers religion and culture at the Atlantic , says the executive order addresses two basic issues but does not change the law.
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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. That’s according to Emily Green of The Atlantic .
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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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Regulating porn in California Fans of pornography would get new power under a measure on California's statewide ballot. All it takes to get a proposed new law on California's statewide ballot is a filing fee and enough signatures. Proposition 60 , up for a vote on Tuesday, would require porn stars to wear condoms. But the porn stars themselves are opposed -- along with the Republican and Democratic Parties. Emma Green, staff writer for the Atlantic , says the opposition is comprised of a coalition of strange bedfellows.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.