Checks and Balance: Using my religion - a podcast by The Economist

A ruling lifting covid restrictions on places of worship suggests the Supreme Court will favour religious rights even as faithlessness is rising. Thecourt’s realignmentmay be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy. How is the balance between religion and politics shifting in America?

David French ofThe Dispatchexplains how secularisation lays a religious rift onto the political one, we find out why the French president is carping at America over secularism, and how Joe Biden will navigate this tricky territory.

John Prideaux,The Economist's US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent.

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