Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is an American journalist and author who often writes about issues related to the separation of church and state, the rise of religious nationalism, and global movements against liberal democracy. Her books include The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children (2012) and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020). Career As a writer and speaker, Stewart has shown interest in controversies over religious freedom and the separation of church and state. She has also written about public and science education, public funding of faith-based initiatives, anti-LGBT initiatives on the state level, faith-based political organizing, the U.S. Supreme Court, homeschooling, and bullying in schools in the U.S. Stewart began her journalism career working for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice. Since 2011, she has been an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, writing more than 20 columns. In a March 2020 op-ed, she linked the slow federal response to the country's coronavirus outbreak to President Trump's connections to the far right and anti-science conservatives. Stewart has contributed pieces to The Guardian, and has written for The American Prospect, George Washington University's History News Network, The Nation, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Republic,The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, Santa Barbara Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and Religion Dispatches.