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Annika Brockschmidt

Annika Brockschmidt is a freelance journalist, author, and podcast-producer who currently writes for the Tagesspiegel, ZEIT Online and elsewhere. Her second non-fiction book America’s Holy Warriors: How the Religious Right endangers Democracy was published in German in October 2021 and was an immediate bestseller. She co-hosts the podcast “Kreuz und Flagge” (“Cross and Flag”) with visiting professor at Georgetown University, Thomas Zimmer, which explores the history of the Religious Right.

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Religion Dispatches
A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, a man broke into the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi , who is second in line to succeed the president, in order to kidnap, torture—and maybe even…
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Religion Dispatches
White Christian nationalism has been shown by researchers to be strongly connected to authoritarianism and anti-democratic sentiment. “White Christian nationalism is not just in the people who stormed…
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Religion Dispatches
As one might imagine, Yale University’s recent conference on White Christian nationalism and the midterm elections was full of sobering information. And yet, two conclusions managed to stand apart…
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