https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Anti-Defamation League en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/16/adl-maga-and-media-should-treat-it-way Reporters covering the Anti-Defamation League’s national summit this week might find the organization’s politics confusing. First, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt will host a chummy conversation with MAGA pastor Samuel Rodriguez—a “devil stomping” evangelical who has portrayed Muslims, LGBTQ people, and social… Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:53:39 EDT Emmaia Gelman 70434d8e-433c-49f8-b960-5f9b0a78946a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/18/fight-against-right-wing-appalachian-school-choice-politics-fight-democracy-and-future This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents… Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:53:46 EDT Mary Reynolds, Carol Mason fd441d96-b26c-4e9b-a955-2f3fec583090 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/11/womens-liberation-front-attempts-liberate-womens-sports-gender-equality This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In June 2024, a group of anti-trans feminists crisscrossed the U.S. with… Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:28:21 EDT Hannah Silver 0d6b2ad4-67ad-43f5-8df2-0936ba4d463e https://religiondispatches.org/2025/04/10/we-called-better-responses-campus-antisemitism-and-adl-threatened-withdraw-sponsorship On March 23, I delivered a talk at the 4th annual Law and Antisemitism conference held at the UCLA School of Law. At a time when the Trump administration is kidnapping student critics of Israel in the name of Jewish… Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:35 EDT Ben Lorber 42b84976-58fe-468b-9d8e-00c557d1a6cc https://religiondispatches.org/2025/03/24/what-mahmoud-khalils-detention-says-about-white-christian-nationalism-and-politics Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents handcuffed and forced the permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia University into an unmarked vehicle. The events of that night have resonated deeply… Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:01:23 EDT Allie Wong 05071193-6d19-4818-a238-2e67211aad29 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/03/12/trumps-pick-fda-commissioner-hedges-abortion-pill-which-safer-tylenol-viagra-or-giving During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans will maintain access to medication abortions if he’s confirmed as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Makary, a public policy researcher and… Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:51:19 EDT Megan Goodwin fdfb7500-0b7e-4111-ab94-cd47e8d539a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/28/exalted-insurrectionists-kremlin-friendly-bombast-and-smattering-nazi-salutes-notes-cpac Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “ message the globalists, at the World… Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:48:45 EST Annika Brockschmidt eaa06e81-4322-479b-9948-529b334c0c66 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/26/even-rfks-more-benign-sounding-rhetoric-rooted-dangerous-ideology-set-guide-us-health Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper , and vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was one of the president’s more questionable nominations. This is a significant achievement in itself when compared with other dangerously… Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:05:25 EST Susannah Crockford 179e83dc-e2e8-4b46-aec3-0d029093213e https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/21/clever-girl-explains-why-dinosaurs-are-queer-and-feminist-and-jurassic-park-toolkit Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad indeed. In the last few weeks alone, we’ve had another school shooting , the passing of a social justice icon , the VP’s ‘cleansing’ visit… Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:41:12 EST Megan Goodwin 10263eb6-b1bb-418d-81a0-05254466d288 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/19/peter-beinarts-being-jewish-after-destruction-gaza-expertly-dismantles-pro-israel The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing short of a spiritual manifesto for the future of… Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:58:58 EST Brant Rosen ba39ac29-a392-4a8d-b6f4-d4481c1f9b24 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/13/jd-vance-merely-latest-conservative-christian-use-nazi-camps-cleanse-his-antisemitism On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Nazi camp. The visit, timed… Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:51:51 EST Joel Swanson 5525e5ae-4ee8-476c-a9c8-ff5d85bb1097 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/06/trumps-eo-combat-antisemitism-wields-jewish-safety-weapon-crush-palestine-solidarity Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency within Pete Hegseth ’s Department of Defense ordering personnel to… Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:45:19 EST Ben Lorber e19ab202-78ae-4ee0-b56d-86d542630f0a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/29/louisville-school-shooters-social-media-presence-reveals-online-rights-fascination According to police, a 17-year-old student fired 10 shots into the cafeteria of his Louisville, KY, high school last week, killing 16-year-old Josselin Escalante and injuring an unnamed student before turning the gun on himself. A manifesto circulating online paints… Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:10:33 EST Michael Muhammad Knight 6b5d0645-abd3-428c-97c4-21fdeab20805 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/21/while-global-media-are-clear-musks-nazi-salute-us-media-engage-nazi-washing At President Trump’s post-inaugural festivities, Elon Musk rose to the podium emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the United States to make a speech. It was a privilege earned through the $277 million he paid to back Trump… Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:38:26 EST Steven Gardiner 81daa90e-3690-4374-9d24-3a0d6bf02a43 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/21/leaving-office-biden-announced-era-should-already-be-28th-amendment-if-it-could-it-be Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with seconds remaining on his presidential clock, Joseph Robinette Biden announced (noticed?) that the Equal Rights Amendment met the requirements to be added to the constitution… Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:20:01 EST Megan Goodwin 207db602-6043-46cc-b6fd-516587b74b1a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/15/old-white-south-rises-again-will-democrats-wilt-sake-national-reconciliation Let me spare you the suspense: Yes, the Democrats will someday come to be ashamed of and to regret their shameless support for the disgusting and xenophobic Laken Riley Act, as Michelle Goldberg predicts. But how long will it take… Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:08:28 EST Peter Laarman 50412a1f-0bc4-45c9-9b20-f00c816641ce https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/10/sing-sing-may-be-beautiful-testament-human-spirit-can-humanizing-narratives-bring-about The prison occupies a powerful place in the American imagination. In film and television it offers a context through which to explore the worst imaginable qualities of humanity—the dangerous, monstrous, deranged, and obscene. The stereotypes, fantasies, and voyeuristic consumption promoted… Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:10:33 EST Laura Simpson bca7b6fa-5c7e-40f9-87da-4c04cd0ad196 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/10/coverage-tucker-carlsons-demonic-assault-missed-importance-man-he-shared-story “Physically mauled” is how Tucker Carlson refers to the alleged demonic assault he suffered in his own bed a year ago. Carlson’s comments, clipped from a larger documentary, have been covered by a variety of news outlets and social media… Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:14:09 EST Sarah Riccardi-Swartz 1f351e11-b5e6-4e30-847d-74e1de9b014c https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/24/trumps-cabinet-and-other-picks-paint-picture-christian-nationalist-kakistocracy Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a wishlist of personnel that perfectly embodies Trumpism’s… Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:01:51 EST Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque c83347ce-8675-4bc3-8a9a-31b4ddc6e168 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/11/election-takeaways-too-transgender-or-us-shifting-right-dems-are-determined-learn-wrong I’ll confess something up front. I hate election postmortems. I’m not sure anybody likes them, especially after an election that may be catastrophic for one’s particular demographic . But given that, as usual, the Democratic leadership is already drawing all… Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:23:42 EST Chrissy Stroop ba392608-cf68-43a7-bbc5-2d1be425120f https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/03/adl-correct-antisemitism-rising-main-and-most-dangerous-source-isnt-left-its-always-been When the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Antisemitism Audit was released in April, its claim of a 140% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2023 seemed like old news. Following the October 7th Hamas attack that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, news reports… Sun, 03 Nov 2024 06:50:39 EST Shane Burley 830c7cf5-e91f-4de9-a064-765c921e7f0e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/09/26/western-self-hatred-problem-gaza-war-protest-movement Dedicated to Fred Moten, inspiration and friend. After listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a prominent Hillel rabbi at an elite university, I was shocked that there was no mention of Israel’s war… Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:31:02 EDT Shaul Magid f8078d81-c089-44fe-ad69-b5fccc85cf08 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/09/09/historian-matthew-stewart-upends-widespread-belief-19th-century-us-christianity-was Might as well say it up front: I am one of many progressive Christians who choose to believe that for every 10 MAGA Christians there’s at least one (and possibly even three) standing up on the other side and working… Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:57:37 EDT Peter Laarman 9579fc7f-3a78-478e-beaa-fdf1d59e8aea https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/11/pro-life-theater-open-white-nationalism-and-virility-fear-day-3-natcon The closing day of NatCon 2024 (day 3) opened with a benediction by Reverend Uriesou Brito: a Christian nationalist, staunch defender of Doug Wilson, and Senior Pastor of Providence Church in Pensacola, Florida. Humanity versus unhuman and the Hot Gulag… Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:41:35 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 34ce8754-e58f-4af5-a909-a1a6bcab5764 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/09/persecution-betrayal-and-zero-sum-fight-global-domination-day-1-natcon-2024 The opening day of 2024’s National Conservatism conference was shot through with familiar themes of far-right triumphalism, civilizational war, xenophobia and existential threat. The majority of conference attendees were White, though far from exclusively; majority male, though not entirely; and… Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:35:33 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 74d5a7bb-5eae-478b-9edf-e07d19d4d9d1