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American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
The claim that the Clintons are tied to a string of “mysterious deaths” before moving into the White House is a long-running conspiracy labeled the “Clinton Body Count.” Investigations and fact-checke...
Christian conservatism has been a central force shaping Republican Party policy commitments from the 1960s to the present, driving the party toward socially conservative positions on abortion, same-se...
The political alliance between the (largely white evangelical Protestants and allied conservative Catholics) and the emerged over decades but coalesced in the 1970s and became a durable force by the 1...
Christian nationalist and allied Christian-right organizations made anti‑abortion politics a central lever for political power beginning in the 1970s and especially after Roe v. Wade; leaders such as ...
The Religious Right remade GOP politics in the 1980s by turning grassroots evangelical energy into durable issue politics: organizations like Moral Majority and leaders around Ronald Reagan pushed abo...
Michael Cohen has said he negotiated with people holding compromising photographs of Jerry and Becki Falwell in 2015 and helped block their release; Cohen later suggested that favor could be “called i...
Historical currents feeding U.S. Christian nationalism span centuries: such as televangelism, the Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. These layered influences converged with partisan realignm...