LIVE FROM BOSTON….While Kevin anchors our “as seen on tv” coverage of the Democratic National Convention, I’m the on-site blogger who will bring you the sights, sounds, and smells of events in and around the Fleet Center. It’s my first official duty as an incoming editor at The Monthly and I can’t complain, as my […]
Amy Sullivan
Amy Sullivan is a Chicago-based journalist who has written about religion, politics, and culture as a senior editor for Time, National Journal, and Yahoo. She was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 2004 to 2006.
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Jesus Christ, Superstar
On this particular evening, however, I had a foolproof plan for fitting in. I had just read the first two books in the 12-part Left Behind series that has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, primarily in evangelical circles. Beginning with the onset of “the Rapture” (the event that some Christians believe will result […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Abortion and the Democrats
ABORTION AND THE DEMOCRATS….A few days ago, I received an email from a reader who had attended a John Kerry rally over the weekend in Erie, Pennsylvania. He and his wife took their two children to the event, and they also brought along a homemade sign to cheer on their candidate and to demonstrate the […]
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A Time to Choose
On Oct. 21 of this year, the Senate passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and sent it to President Bush for his signature, thus enacting the first ever federal prohibition of a specific abortion procedure. Anti-abortion activists rejoiced that the legislation, first introduced in Congress eight years ago and vetoed twice by President Bill Clinton, […]
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General Election
Instead of coalescing around one or two strong possibilities, likely voters are withdrawing their support. Today, there are actually more undecided Democrats than there were just a few months ago. The number stood at 15 percent in May and 30 percent in early July. In a late July Zogby poll, almost half of those Democrats […]
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Revival of the Fittest
In the days before VeggieTales, we read Christian versions of Archie comic books, in which Betty, Veronica, and the whole gang traveled the world proselytizing. We sang praise songs displayed on overhead projectors, flocked to Amy Grant concerts, and (Lord help us) performed rap songs with puppets, using the baptistery as a stage in order […]
Posted inJune 2003, Magazine
Do the Democrats Have a Prayer?
To win in ’04 the next nominee will need to get religion.
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Do the Democrats Have a Prayer?
When President George W. Bush spoke of the “wonder-working power” of Americans in his 2003 State of the Union address, many television viewers may have considered it simply a nice rhetorical turn of phrase, an eloquent way of describing the potential social impact of volunteerism, which holds great appeal to a wide swath of American […]
