The word "God" is seen on the wall of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. The word "God" is seen on the wall of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.Alex Wong—Getty Images Two ...

Amid all the other big news this week, a landmark development in a federal court in Texas drew less attention than expected. On Monday, the IRS agreed to a consent judgment that will restore the First ...

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

A bedrock of American exceptionalism has been the prohibition on using tax dollars to support religion. In America’s “melting pot,” public schools must be open to all without any religious preference ...

WASHINGTON–After the state of Oklahoma contested the right of a Catholic organization to get state funding for a charter school, the Supreme Court is weighing whether the separation of church and ...

President Trump said last week that he doesn’t know whether it’s his job to uphold the U.S. Constitution. That explains a lot about his actions — including his recent dismissal of church-state ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: Separation of church and state is a founding principle of our great nation and it is under great ...

On this week’s Slate Plus-only episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern review the jaw-dropping arguments from SCOTUS this week that could effectively legalize public funding for religious ...

President Donald Trump joked that his administration could end the separation of church and state on Thursday, saying they are "bringing religion back to our country." Trump made the statement during ...

The word "God" is seen on the wall of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Credit - Alex Wong—Getty Images Two hundred fifty years ago, the American Revolution began with the “shot heard ...