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Oaks’ change of venue Dallin H. Oaks may have given up his shot at sitting on the nation’s highest bench in 1984, when he left as a Utah Supreme Court justice to become an apostle. “If he had wanted it, he could have been appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a position seen as a steppingstone to becoming a member of the U.S. Supreme Court,” biographer Richard Turley, told interviewer Kurt Manwaring. “His name ended up on lists of potential Supreme Court...

2020 election: Believers favored Trump...but nonreligious left for Biden Associated Press Spanish (April 8, 2021) - By and large there was very little notable change in the vote choice of religious groups between 2016 and 2020 – in fact, for most faiths, support for Trump ticked up slightly. Instead, it was among those who do not identify with any religion that Trump saw a noticeable drop. Ryan Burge of Eastern Illinois University is an analyst of religious data. He says despite exit poll ...

Utah’s minority political parties welcome Oaks’ talk disputing belief that Latter-day Saints should be Republicans Church leader said in General Conference that ‘we should never assert that a faithful Latter-day Saint cannot belong to a particular party or vote for a particular candidate.’ (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the governing First Presidency, speaks at General Conference about the U.S. Constituti...

The hollowing out of American religion Its consequences for American politics are hard to exaggerate. Photo by BPBricklayer/Pixabay/Creative Commons April 5, 2021 (RNS) — Twenty-five years ago, when Trinity College hired me to create a center for the study of religion in public life, nearly 9 in 10 Americans asserted a religious identity. Now, according to Gallup, it’s 7 in 10.  Then, two-thirds of Americans said they belonged to a religious congregation. Now, it’s less tha...

Jana Riess: Younger Latter-day Saints voted for Biden, but Trump fared well overall Millennials and members of color chose the Democrat, but two-thirds of U.S. Latter-day Saints overall — women and men — voted Republican. (Andrew Harnik | AP file photo) Joe Biden celebrates his victory Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. A survey of election results shows younger Latter-day Saints favored the Democratic former vice president over GOP President Donald Trump. By Jana Riess | Religion...

Date Time Survey Analyzes Community Views on Policing in Medford and Somerville While community residents express some satisfaction, they see inequalities and opportunity for change according to survey by Tufts professor and students Image via Pixabay Residents of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts are somewhat satisfied with policing in their communities-although satisfaction is lower among residents of color-and favor creating civilian review boards, deploying more resources for social ser...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace February 09, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  Indian Americans are now the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. Their growing political influence and the role the diaspora plays in Indian foreign policy therefore raises important questions—about how Indian Americans view India, the political changes underway there, and the course of U.S.-India relations. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank yo...

Restoring Public Trust After Trump and COVID-19 Editorial Restoring Public Trust After Trump and COVID-19 Ekaterina Sprenger, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Hamburg, Germany. This was a long time coming. The end of the Trump presidency was shocking but should have come as no surprise. The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January was a fitting, some would even say foreseeable conclusion, to Trump’s first and only term in office. After railing for years against the corrupt elect...

If American democracy were in good health, one might make the case that last week’s storming of the Capitol building was a last gasp of despair by an unruly band of Trump supporters, egged on by the president’s incendiary allegations of electoral fraud. The truth is that it was the latest chapter in a wider process of disaffection from public institutions that has been going on for decades. The world’s oldest surviving democracy is facing a threat potentially more insidious than war itsel...