Roy Moore

Shame worked in Alabama

by Tom Nichols

It helps show us the way to change voters' minds. 

What Else Was Wrong with Roy Moore

by Greg Bailey

Like too many white people today, he thinks that the Civil Rights movement only benefitted blacks and other minorities.

Two maps explain the racial history behind Alabama’s senate vote

A comparison of the census map of 1860 showing concentration of slaves in Alabama with the votes in the Senate election this week show that Roy Moore’s support was highest in white counties from 1860. 

Roy Moore Thinks Families Flourished During Slavery. Why Would He Say Such a Thing?

by Roy E. Finkenbine

Here are the facts.

Roy Moore Is Strangely Nostalgic for Slavery Days

by Tim Murphy

When “families were strong.”

Can a 1903 Supreme Court Case Put Roy Moore in the Senate?

by David Hosansky

The case, Giles v. Harris, upheld Alabama’s successful campaign to prevent African Americans from casting ballots despite the constitutional guarantee of the right for black people to vote.

The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore

by Randall Balmer

After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce.  After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault. 

Why abortion — not sexual misconduct — is likely to decide the Alabama Senate race

by Stacie Taranto

Roy Moore is trying to save himself with a tried and true conservative move: resorting to the politics of abortion.

Worse than Roy Moore?

by Greg Bailey

His name was Thomas Heflin. He was Alabama's junior senator in the 1920s.

The Threat of Senate Expulsion Facing Roy Moore is a Real One

by David Pietrusza

Both houses of Congress have voted to expel members for sex-related matters.

Roy Moore and the revolution to come

by Kimberly A. Hamlin

Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?

It's absurd to place Al Franken in the same frame as monsters like Harvey Weinstein

by Jonathan Zimmerman

And Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky is in a different category than his alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick.

Al Franken Could Face an Ethics Committee Investigation

Here's how that's gone for other Senators.

Roy Moore says he’s a ‘witch hunt’ victim

by Avi Selk

Tell that to thousands of women killed in real ones.

It’s been 155 years since the Senate expelled a member. Will Roy Moore break the streak?

by Michael Todd Landis

The senator they expelled? A proslavery Democrat who recognized Jefferson Davis as the legitimate president of the Confederacy.

Why Is Roy Moore in Trouble?

Because the age of consent laws changed. Here’s the background.

Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager?

It’s complicated.

Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott

“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”