Christian Right

With his new Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed hopes to simultaneously bury his past and to make the connection he’s been yearning for: to “address a wider range agenda, social issues plus economic issues.” Will that connection and mutual cries of socialism be enough to wed the two most energetic right-wing movements?

In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.

Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli prove that the religious right, once again, is not dead.

What does all the quiet good work of Mainline Liberals really come to in a public square dominated by the right?

Claiming to oppose ‘scientific dogma’ climate change foes seek to ‘teach the controversy’ in schools.

For Beck, social justice is the new fascism.

The causes of disasters are natural, not supernatural.

Answers in Genesis proselytizes to Olympics competitors and spectators.

The tea partiers disparage liberalism while anti-abortion activists claim to follow the civil rights movement.

The recent firing of a progressive leader by the Jerusalem Post has lit up the international press. If Israel is entering its own McCarthy era, as many fear, it is not without American support—on both sides. So where’s the American media coverage?