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The Public Eye, Summer 2013

In the Summer 2013 issue of The Public Eye, Sofia Resnick explores the Right's response to the Guttmacher Institute, and Fred Clarkson discusses the emerging Catholic-evangelical alliance. The issue also includes a commentary by Kristin Rawls on the Moral Mondays protests, an exclusive interview with Roger Ross Williams, and a peek into the PRA archives.

In this issue

Taking the Voting-Rights Battle to the States and the Streets

Protesters in a park with buildings in the background.

On June 25, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, which established a formula for determining whether states and jurisdictions need permission from the federal government to change…

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The Charlotte Lozier Institute Plots New Strategies in War on Women

Two black and white pictures of women in black dresses.

The Charlotte Lozier Institute aims to abolish abortion rights in the United States by recasting antichoice as authentic feminism, promoting incremental antichoice laws, and undermining the work of the prochoice Guttmacher Institute. Though it bills…

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Profiles on the Right: Lila Rose

Lila Rose speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA.

Though only in her mid-twenties, Lila Rose is already a seasoned antichoice activist. In 2006, while still a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles, she started an antichoice publication, The Advocate, which she claims is distributed…

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Profiles on the Right: Ryan Bomberger

At the Family Research Council’s 2012 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., where he was a featured speaker, Ryan Bomberger opened his remarks by saying “I’m as Black as Obama.” He explained that his biological mother was raped, became pregnant,…

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Dangerous Liaisons: New SPLC Report on Danger to LGBTQ People in Belize

The influence of U.S.-based Christian Right groups on the criminalization of homophobia has recently expanded to Belize, which has become a hotbed for anti-LGBTQ activity, according to new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Dangerous…

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The Making of God Loves Uganda

A Web Exclusive Interview with Roger Ross Williams
A group of people in a room with their hands raised.

Roger Ross Williams is a television and film writer, director, and producer whose most recent project, the documentary God Loves Uganda, focuses on the work of American evangelical Christian missionaries in Africa. Williams decided to focus on…

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