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Religion Dispatches
As of this writing, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is 2016’s biggest movie worldwide. If pop culture is our public religion (as per scholar David Chidester, for example) this blockbuster…
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Political Research Associates
In the wake of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January and February 2016, a slew of candidates linked to the so-called Patriot movement are running for office in Oregon.
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Religion Dispatches
On a warm day in July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of a canceled flight out of RDU Airport. I used the opportunity to travel into downtown Raleigh to observe one of the early Moral Monday…
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Religion Dispatches
Reading between the hashtags as Twitter responds to the Oregon standoff.
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Political Research Associates
The Three Percenters are a Patriot movement paramilitary group that pledges armed resistance against attempts to restrict private gun ownership.
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Political Research Associates
The storm waters may have receded, but as Darwin BondGraham wrote for us five years ago, the tidal wave of Economic Right policies has yet to retreat.
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Religion Dispatches
In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour and contributor Megan Goodwin discuss public shaming and new…
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Political Research Associates
After nine Black churchgoers were gunned down in Charleston, South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag is driving a wedge between neo-Confederates and free-market neoliberals.
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Religion Dispatches
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from the state capital grounds today, part of a remarkably rapid trend of banishing the flag from places where it might…
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