Social Justice Give Me That Old-Time Religion From ISIS to the Christian right, three new books explore the modern urge to go back to an original, uncorrupted version of faith. Alex Strick van Linschoten
News in Brief Americans Want Elected Leaders Who Act on Climate Change Members of Congress who oppose climate action are out of touch with most American voters. But they are in touch with the noisy members of the misinformed Tea Party clan. John Upton
Social Justice Accurately or Not, Conservatives Perceive Themselves as United New research suggests this impression of consensus can cut two ways, inspiring both activism and a false sense of confidence. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Why Politicians Know So Much That Just Isn’t So A new study finds that politicians think that voters are far more conservative than they really are. Seth Masket
News in Brief American Voters: Plenty of Opinions, But Without a Clue With a day to go until the presidential election, taking stock of just how (ill) informed American voters are. Kevin Charles Fleming
Economics Congress: If You Liked 2010-12, You’ll Love 2012-14 Debating Writing at Mischiefs of Faction, the University of Miami’s Greg Koger makes a good case for this… Marc Herman