For anyone who thought they could safely ignore the role of white evangelicals in American politics, Trump’s victory offered an ice-bucket of a wake-up call. Frances FitzGerald’s newest book, The…
It was billed as unprecedented, a religion-themed tour to “broadcast a message of unity” to followers of the Abrahamic faiths by visiting, in the words of national security adviser General H.R…
As the White House releases its budget that slashes support for the poor, the elderly, and the sick in favor of tax cuts, evangelical support for President Trump remains strong.
Times of demographic and cultural threat to a core White American identity and experience have historically empowered the Far Right, a significant contributing factor to the rise of Trumpism.
“Morning Joe” co-anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough made headlines when they announced their recent engagement. A second wave of headlines revealed a proposition they’d received from someone…
The Right-Wing International, a Crisis of Democracy, and the Future of the European Union
One of the more striking features of the 2016 U.S. election was the convergence of the rhetoric and talking points of President Donald Trump and his supporters with those of the Kremlin. And in the tangled and ongoing investigation of Russian involvement
In the days of the Trumpian order, American LGBT Muslims, a minority within minorities, find themselves especially vulnerable to the forces of racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. As a member of this…
This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead…
While some of Washington’s most revered journalists were being roasted by The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a different (though no less distinguished)…
In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show’s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D…