Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles of the week are below.

If you’re one of the 40 million Americans at risk of eviction for not paying your rent – or a landlord coping with the crisis – you need to know about a new CDC order banning the evictions of people who lost work as a result of the pandemic. Katy Ramsey Mason of the University of Memphis answered six questions about the ban for us – an article that’s already been read almost 200,000 times.

Emily Costello

Deputy Editor

Anti-mask protesters at a rally in Orem, Utah. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Why masks are a religious issue

Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University

Are masks a religious matter, or is religion being used to suit people’s political agendas? A scholar of Christian conservatism and culture argues both can be true.

Plimoth Plantation, in Plymouth, Mass., is a living museum that’s a replica of the original settlement, which existed for 70 years. Wikimedia Commons

The complicated legacy of the Pilgrims is finally coming to light 400 years after they landed in Plymouth

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Descendants from the Pilgrims were keen to highlight their ancestors' role in the country's founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.