Nation Topics - Jerry Falwell | The Nation

 Legal experts say constitutional challenges to the healthcare reform legislation don't have a leg to stand on. But as politics, these suits could be a roaring success.

Pundits embrace the fantasy of Hillary Clinton's candidacy as foolishly as they embraced the Iraq War.

Readers weigh in on our endorsement of Obama, our coverage of terrorism and our grammar.

The new evangelicals are rejecting the religious right and embracing a broader social gospel.

Young People For's fellows work for change from the bottom up. Get the lowdown on this generation's budding grassroots leaders.

The original poster child for the religious right describes how he came to terms with religion and an odd upbringing.

Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.

If the holiest day on the American calendar is Super Bowl Sunday, Vince Lombardi and Joe Namath were its early saints. So what does that make Pat Tillman?

Dinesh D'Souza revs up the Republican base with a book arguing that lifestyles of the decadent left triggered Muslim anger that led to 9/11.

Rapture-ready Christian Zionists have hired their first full-time
Washington lobbyist. He's experienced, connected--and, oy vey, he's
Jewish.