Sarah Posner

{{short description|American journalist and author}}

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Sarah Posner is an American journalist and author. She is the author of two books about the American Christian right and has written for The American Prospect, The Guardian,{{Cite web |title=Sarah Posner {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sarah-posner |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} The Nation,{{Cite web |date=2010-04-02 |title=Sarah Posner |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/sarah-posner/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}} Salon, AlterNet, The Atlantic,{{Cite web |last=Posner |first=Sarah |title=Sarah Posner |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/sarah-posner/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}} The Washington Spectator, VICE,{{Cite web |title=Sarah Posner {{!}} Penguin Random House |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2194757/sarah-posner |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}} The Daily Beast,{{cite web|title=Sarah Posner|url=http://prospect.org/authors/sarah-posner|publisher=Prospect|accessdate=13 September 2013}} The New Republic, HuffPost, Mother Jones,{{Cite web |title=Sarah Posner |url=https://www.motherjones.com/author/sarah-posner/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}} Rolling Stone,{{Cite magazine |date=2021-03-25 |title=Sarah Posner |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/author/sarah-posner/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}} MSNBC,{{Cite web |title=NBC News Author Sarah Posner |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/author/sarah-posner-ncpn1221976 |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=NBC News |language=en}} and The Washington Post,{{Cite news |title=Sarah Posner |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-posner/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |type=Author profile}} among other publications. She was formerly a contributing writer for Religion Dispatches, writing on the intersection of religion and politics.See, e.g., God's Profits: Faith Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (PoliPoint 2008)

Her second book, Unholy, was favorably reviewed by the National Catholic Reporter{{cite news |last=Lindsey D. |first=William |date=October 17, 2020 |title=Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/sarah-posners-unholy-implicates-catholics-well-evangelicals |work=National Catholic Reporter}} and by writers at Wesleyan University{{cite news |last=Roach |first=Annie |date=October 26, 2020 |title="You Just Have to Read This…" Books by Wesleyan Authors Arnold '91, McKenna '79, P'20, and Posner '86 |url= https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/10/26/you-just-have-to-read-this-books-by-wesleyan-authors-arnold-91-mckenna-79-p20-and-posner-86/ |work=News @ Wesleyan |location=Middletown, Connecticut }} and Washington University in St. Louis.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Eric C. |date=July 29, 2020 |title=Trump's Unholy Alliances: An Interview with Sarah Posner |url= https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/07/29/trumps-unholy-alliances-an-interview-with-sarah-posner/ |work=Religion & Politics |location=St. Louis, Missouri}} Terry Gross interviewed Posner about her book on Fresh Air.{{Cite news |date=July 8, 2020 |title='Unholy' Examines The Alliance Between White Evangelicals And Trump |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888906337/unholy-examines-the-alliance-between-white-evangelicals-and-trump |work=Fresh Air: NPR}}