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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.
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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. Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit all the antiquities and pay $3 million to settle the charges.
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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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Drawing new attention to vulnerable animals through photography Joel Sartore takes simple, intimate photographs of vulnerable animals in a studio. He hopes the images will give people a new perspective on what we could lose if the animals go extinct. He’s shot more than 8000 portraits as part of his Photo Ark.
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Wildlife “Wildlife” is just plain wonderful, and I’ll explain the plain part in a minute. This coming-of-age drama is the directorial debut of the actor Paul Dano; he and Zoe Kazan adapted the screenplay from the novel by Richard Ford. The time is 1960, the place is Montana and the hero, a lonely 14-year-old named Joe Brinson, is trying to understand the ways of the world through his suddenly fractured family.
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Endeavor ending $400 million deal with the Saudi government Following the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, most likely ordered by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, Endeavor--the parent company of WME--is backing out of a huge $400 million deal it had made with the Saudi government.
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Dianne Feinstein on why she deserves another term in the Senate We speak with Sen. Feinstein about her forum with Kevin de León on Wednesday; how she and Democrats handled the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and allegations from Christine Blasey Ford; whether a single-payer healthcare system works, and more.