The Economist.
I'm John Prideaux and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist.
Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.
Today, the new politics of Christianity.
Deep red Kansas hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate for nearly a century.
Their candidate this year is the pastor of a megachurch, and he has a real shot.
On the right, some Republicans are placing a new emphasis on Christian identity as well as faith.
There's been a shift in how both parties talk and think about Christianity.
What do Republicans and Democrats have to offer Christian voters?
And how could this affect the midterms?
Joining me this week to talk about Christianity, the religious left, the religious right, and the midterms,
are James Bennet, who's in Washington, D.C., and Charlotte Howard, who's in London.
Charlotte, how's London treating you?
Very well.
It's beautiful here.
I just had a long conversation with our colleague, Alex Hern,
who is fresh from a trip to Silicon Valley hanging out with people who run AI labs,
where everyone is even more concerned than they are publicly, so that was a real upper.
But fascinating.
Yeah, so interesting.