Katherine Stewart

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Katherine Stewart has been covering the rise of the anti-democratic movement for over 17 years. Her latest book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), an instant New York Times bestseller, was named one of the Best Books of 2025 by Foreign Affairs. Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (Bloomsbury, 2020), won First Place in the Nonfiction Books category from the Religion News Association, as well as the Morris B. Forkosch Best Book Award. The Power Worshippers also formed the basis of the documentary feature God & Country, produced by Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, for which Stewart served as executive producer.

Her 2012 book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, examined the religious right’s efforts to undermine public education. Stewart’s writing has appeared in The New York Times opinion section, The New Republic, Religion News Service, and other outlets. She writes a Substack newsletter at katherinestewartbooks and is on Bluesky at katherinestewart.bsky.social.