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Religion Dispatches
Murder often functions as a cultural Rorschach test: the narratives we tell about why people kill often reveal more about ourselves than the killers. The day before Halloween, 21-year-old Isaiah Marin…
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Political Research Associates
Why does Hollywood keep distorting history to portray exceptional individuals rescuing America from collective problems?
A number of acclaimed films focusing on the life of Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War have distorted historical reality to suggest that exceptional individuals– and not social movements–are are responsible for progressive social change.
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Political Research Associates
How right-wing power—along with free-market ideas—shifted from conservative Christians to the Tea Party
Why have social conservatives acted as regular, if not always docile, allies in the Republican Party’s active role in the neoliberal project?
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Political Research Associates
Higher education is under attack by the neoliberal enterprise.
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Public Eye
Seventy years after the Right embraced von Hayek’s manifesto, does Piketty’s rock-star reception portend a new revolution?
The response to Piketty from liberal audiences indicates a longing to bring economic questions into political debate in ways that reflect their centrality to our lives.
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Public Eye
When NAFTA was passed two decades ago, its boosters promised it would bring “First World” status for the Mexican people. Instead, it prompted a great migration north.
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Public Eye
The Faith-Based Takeover of Federal Programs
Two presidents in a row have increasingly steered federal grants and contracts to conservative Christian groups—including houses of worship.
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Public Eye
When Austerity Opens Cages, Where Do the Services Go?
Neoliberal policies that result in institutional closures carry a cost, too. Could communities seize the moment to redirect resources toward self-determination and liberation?
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Public Eye
As White supremacists shifted tactics in response to mass social movements, they needed a mass electoral base. Neoliberals helped build it for them—and colorblindness helped wipe out some inconvenient historical truths.
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Public Eye
The Threat to Democracy Has Grown
While The New Right used democratic processes to further a reactionary agenda, neoliberalism engaged in opposing democratic goals.
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