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…
I was surprised on Friday when I started getting messages that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity , which won a 2021 American Book Award, appeared as #46…
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. Two weeks before the…
Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’s tattoos for one lifetime, this week Hegseth revealed a new one : a tattoo on his left bicep of the Arabic word…
The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which…
Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional , it closely resembles the stalled SAVE Act , which requires voters to present a passport…
Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
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…
This adapted essay is based on excerpts from Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), which are reprinted with permission from the author and…
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…