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On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use…
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Like a comet closing in on Planet Earth, the US presidential election is hurtling toward its destination. With around two weeks left before impact, the stakes of the choice before the American…
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On October 12 th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the…
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Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 2
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain, the fourth in our new From the Archives series.
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Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has always been the case. A two-party system often means choosing the lesser of two evils—deciding which of one’s…
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Is it valid to be annoyed when, as your plane pulls up to the gate at your destination, a flight attendant tells you and your fellow passengers, just before deplaning, to “have a blessed day”? Perhaps…
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As a transgender person who grew up evangelical and is now an atheist, I feel the consequences of the “ myth of Christian innocence ” that profoundly shapes American society in ways that many…
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Since 2016, I have been arguing here at RD that former president Donald Trump’s politics, and his appeal to White evangelical Christians, are best explained through the lens of authoritarianism…
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Might as well say it up front: I am one of many progressive Christians who choose to believe that for every 10 MAGA Christians there’s at least one (and possibly even three) standing up on the other…
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Iowa’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect last month, meaning that more than 600,000 women of reproductive age now lack access to legal abortion in the state. While the law claims to offer…
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