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The Trump administration has announced that, as part of its reorganization of the State Department (along with the now familiar gutting of important programs and firing of topic-area experts), it…
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A federal school voucher program , or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it. A central element in the…
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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. Elon Musk has been…
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Political Research Associates
The Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants in the 1980s American Right
An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s.
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During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues, discuss the establishment of the Catholic University of America, the…
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Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 1
Host Koki Mendis kicks off season 4 with a discussion with Steven Gardiner on the wide-ranging practices, policies, and ideologies underlying the antidemocratic goals of the Neoreactionary Right—and how to resist them.
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Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” made headlines by officially classifying the far-right Alternative für…
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Last week, just days after Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome, Trump was asked by reporters if he had anyone in mind for the next pope. His answer : “I’d like to be pope. That would be my No. 1…
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An expanded version of article was originally published in German at “ Volksverpetzer ”, an independent, crowd-funded online magazine covering the far-right in Germany and abroad. While too many…
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Political Research Associates
The Rise of Paula White and the Independent Charismatics
In this excerpt from The Violent Take It by Force, Matthew D. Taylor examines the role of Paula White as a televangelist-turned-advisor for the Trump administration.
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