Chris McDonald

With COVID-19 vaccine skepticism prevalent within the white evangelical community, Trump-loving right-wing pastor Robert Jeffress has been a rare voice urging conservative Christians to get vaccinated, declaring last week that "there is no credible religious argument against the vaccines." Predictab

Journalists and scholars are increasingly taking note of the role that Christian nationalist ideology and religious-right rhetoric played in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, sharing information and analysis on Twitter with the hashtag #capitolsiegereligion.

Analysis Adam Fox was worried about a rat. In the dark and cluttered basement, Fox gathered the men’s phones in a bin and took them upstairs to the main floor of the nondescript vacuum store in Grand Rapids, Michigan—a measure meant to avoid surveillance.

At the news of President Donald Trump’s and first lady Melania Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnoses, right-wing actors and politicians went into overdrive testing out farcical conspiracy theories, blaming China and the Democrats, and attacking anyone who criticized the president.  Trump, who att