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Religion Dispatches
Even as Trump threatens to withdraw federal aid from storm-devastated Puerto Rico, ranting on twitter as he witlessly embraces the villain’s role in this ongoing tragedy, heroes have emerged—even…
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Political Research Associates
As Donald Trump exited the stage after addressing the 2016 Values Voter Summit (VVS) in Washington, DC a year ago, the Rolling Stone’s “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” blasted from the speakers.
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Religion Dispatches
The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s “religious freedom” memo, which is actually a pair of documents purporting to instruct all…
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Religion Dispatches
Nobody’s perfect. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Paul wrote to a Christian community in Rome. It’s an important verse in American evangelical Christianity. Because all have…
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Religion Dispatches
Much has already been written about the dangers Roy Moore—Alabama’s infamous “10 Commandments judge”—could pose if he wins the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. But given Moore’s swift…
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Religion Dispatches
Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests.
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Religion Dispatches
The bishops helped radicalize white Catholics to be favorable to Trump—which they were, with 60 percent backing him despite all-but-explicit condemnations by Pope Francis:
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Public Eye
What might have seemed to most to be normal, if unusually acrimonious, political aggression was in fact a classic example of a right-wing strategy developed in the late 1980s: Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW).
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Religion Dispatches
Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s fault?
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Religion Dispatches
People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch this month published an important report by RD contributor (and PFAW senior fellow) Peter Montgomery, offering a compelling portrait of a group that…
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