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The Public Eye, Commemorative Issue

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Featuring excerpts from 20 seminal articles published in the magazine between 1995 and 2018.

100th Issue of the Public Eye, cover and open magazine — Commemorative 100th Issue of *The Public Eye*

A peer-reviewed quarterly magazine that goes beyond the standard thinking and reporting on the U.S. and Global Right, The Public Eye and it’s historical pieces continue to be relevant today.

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The Right’s Attack on Aid to Families with Dependent Children by Lucy A. Williams

Reconsidering Hate: A Forum on the “Hate” Frame in Policy, Politics and Organizing by Kay Whitlock

A Beachhead in Brazil: Christian Right Legal Center’s “South American Way” by Jandira Queiroz

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Mobilizing Misogyny

Effectively fighting mobilizations like those emboldened by Trump’s election requires accurately understanding their composition—one in which misogyny thrives alongside, and intertwined with, racism.

Alex DiBranco

March 8, 2017

Article

A black sign with the words "imagine the end of male supremacy"

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The Resurgent Right

Why Now?

The resurgence of the Right in different parts of our lives has adverse effects on everything from race to sexuality.

Jean Hardisty

September 1, 1995

Article

Boxes, prams, tarps, and other disparate items piled up under a blue sky on the sidewalk

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The Rise of Dominionism

Remaking America as a Christian Nation

What are “hard” and “soft” dominionism and where do we see it in mainstream politics?

Frederick Clarkson

December 5, 2005

Article

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Post-Palin Feminism

Though a self-proclaimed feminist, Sarah Palin bridges the gap between different factions on the Right.

Abby Scher

December 6, 2008

Article

Sarah Palin in a white jacket, in front of a crowd, smiling.

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Nativist Bedfellows

The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics

Why did the 2007 Values Voter Summit talk about immigration as much as abortion and same-sex marriage?

Tarso Luís Ramos

Pam Chamberlain

June 6, 2008

Article

a brown fence following around a dirt road that fades into green mountains.

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The New Christian Zionism and the Jews: A Love/Hate Relationship

The obsessive “philosemitism” of Christian Zionists is tied to a view of the end times that determines how they should “support” Jews and Israel in fulfilling prophecy. And this obsession has a history of turning ugly.

Rachel Tabachnick

January 18, 2010

Article

Vice President Mike Pence shakes John Hagee's hand and delivers remarks at the Christians United for Israel Washington Summit in Washington, D.C. Monday, July 8, 2019. (Official White House Photo/Flickr)

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The U.S. Christian Right and the Attack on Gays in Africa

The anti-LGBT laws in Uganda have an external influencer: The U.S. Christian Right.

Kapya Kaoma

December 1, 2009

Article

A woman in the front of the frame holding a sign that reads "marching in solidarity with the Ugandan LGBTI Community"

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The Long Hurricane

The New Orleans Catastrophe Predates Katrina

Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the “federal flood,” as locals call the disaster, the new New Orleans is as much the product of decades of antiwelfare ideology in local and national governments as it is of the unique circumstances of the disaster.

Darwin BondGraham

November 1, 2010

Environment

Article

Survivors' Village at St. Bernard Projects, New Orleans.

Public Eye

The Conservative Attack on Birthright Citizenship

Any challenges to the 14th Amendment cannot be supported by the history leading up to the passage of it, the intent of the Framers who drafted it, or the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it.

Sherrilyn A. Ifill

March 1, 2011

Article

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Terror Network or Lone Wolf?

Disparate Legal Treatment of Muslims and the Radical Right

In April 2014, an armed encampment formed at the Nevada cattle ranch of Cliven Bundy as news spread through militia networks about the confrontation between the 67-year-old rancher and the Bureau of Land Management.

Naomi Braine

June 19, 2015

Article

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"Faith-Washing" Right-Wing Economics

How the Right is Marketing Medicare's Demise

Koch-funded theologians have developed a scripture-based argument to address populist anger over economic inequality.

Mariya Strauss

November 14, 2015

Article

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'Trumping' Democracy

Right-Wing Populism, Fascism, and the Case for Action

Debate over what we should call Trump’s vicious political movement should not stop us from organizing now to protect the people being demonized and scapegoated as targets of White rage.

Chip Berlet

December 12, 2015

Article

Public Eye

35 Years of Demonization

The Criminalization of Black Women

Between 1990 and 2000, the number of people in U.S. prisons and jails increased from 292 per 100,000 to 481 per 100,000. But the number of women in prison rose even more sharply, doubling over the ten-year period.

Victoria Law

February 2, 2016

Article

Black woman in field facing away from camera with arms in the air crossed at the wrist.

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Trump’s “Second Amendment People”?

The U.S. Patriot Movement Today

Judging from his recent statements, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be making plans for post-election violence if he’s defeated. At the beginning of August he warned, “I’m afraid…

Spencer Sunshine

October 31, 2016

Article

Public Eye

Birth of the Alt Right

The Internet, with its easy anonymity and wanton disregard of the rules of evidence and factuality, by the early 2000s had already become host to a swamp of conspiracy theories, false smears, and wild speculation.

David Neiwert

March 22, 2017