https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Economic Right & Privatization en https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/05/magas-imperial-ambitions On January 3, 2026, the Trump administration bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, taking them to New York to face “narcoterrorism” charges. The escalation followed several months of U.S. military strikes on boats in… Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner fdbceb27-b29b-481d-be0e-2c8aa741e928 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/05/infected Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural, governed by biological properties. But who gets sick, when… Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Susannah Crockford 756d5fa1-85a0-4e36-8bea-41749a4f5e45 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/31/right-memes-while-millions-face-food-insecurity Last Friday, October 24, the Department of Agriculture announced that there would be no emergency plan to provide for the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps and, due to the government shutdown, will no longer receive them as… Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Carmen Celestini a220fa85-0d6f-432b-ac4c-ee627705265f https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/how-far-right-capitalizes-neoliberal-ideas-and-race-science What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of neoliberalism. The first book, Globalists, examined how global neoliberal institutions were designed to… Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Kitana Ananda 875b0a54-dda4-4ec4-b7df-72069925282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/coalitions-and-contradictions-between-capitalist-and-far-right-agendas-hialy-gutierrez In this episode, Hialy Gutierrez, PRA Deputy Research Director, and Claudia Espinel, discuss the connections and contradictions between prevailing economic systems, political infrastructure and ideology, and rising authoritarianism. We touch on the various ways that corporate power intersects with government… Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 8b33ae3a-25d2-4096-848a-3d7b28cef271 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/06/13/tech-capitalism-and-neoreactionary-movement-behind-doge Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative reveals a new neoreactionary bloc is growing in strength and influence within the Trump administration, although competing interests may reveal fault lines in this coalition of tech capitalists. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:26:10 EDT Matthew N. Lyons c8a30ff1-a2bb-451e-916e-e3fe6cd97d27 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/03/25/canaries-classroom 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. Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:42:01 EDT Mary Reynolds, Carol Mason e1c9d1ad-36bb-479b-b43b-baa757e4166f https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/review-commune-or-nothing Hialy Gutierrez reviews Chris Gilbert’s book Commune or Nothing!, a story of Venezuela’s communes as a model for liberatory organizing. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:42:09 EST Hialy Gutierrez bc128ee7-9958-4bb8-93e2-627a188bfc78 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/what-movement-infrastructure Cloee Cooper speaks with three movement leaders—Alex Tom, Meena Jagannath, and Vince Warren—about rising authoritarianism, successful resistance strategies, and the future of Left organizing. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:19:32 EST Cloee Cooper 1e35e1e5-0d1d-4f5d-affd-94ecb455bb21 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/14/authoritarian-blueprints-revealing-and-resisting-project-2025 In the lead-up to the 2024 general election, PRA hosted a multi-part political education and strategy series for our movement partners on Project 2025’s impacts on gender/reproductive justice and immigration; foreign policy and the administrative state; and racial justice, labor… Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 431715b5-6a6a-4f51-85e5-798096fc79e6 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/07/us-imperialism-comes-home-roost-conversation-ramah-kudaimi We talk with Ramah Kudaimi about imperialism & state violence. From the global war on terror, to genocide in Palestine, we discuss how imperial power, capitalist interests, and far-right organizing work together to entrench systems of oppression. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:30:29 EST Political Research Associates 18815f16-7bd5-4e04-8cb8-56f047ebdefd https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/27/big-oil-wants-exploit-legal-system-crush-protest-dissent-we-cannot-let-it-win The political stakes are high for the oil and gas industry, which is desperate to preserve its dominance amid cascading environmental policy shifts, and ever more visible, social and economic effects of climate change. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:12:02 EDT Andres Chang 7e7ac5ad-fdf5-4db1-a905-ce9a33a2fbb7 https://politicalresearch.org/2023/10/25/uncovering-right-wing-funding Participants of the Inform Your Giving Roundtable discuss right-wing funding streams, and what progressives can do to increase funding on the Left. Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:36:06 EDT Political Research Associates 54b39a30-c3bf-44b2-8191-91cc6e63080c https://politicalresearch.org/2023/09/28/racial-capitalism-saqib-bhatti Listen to this episode of Inform Your Resistance, where Saqib Bhatti breaks down the disturbing realities of racial capitalism and state violence. Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:21:54 EDT Political Research Associates 9fd24090-dd8a-4aa5-8524-d3d7447b110d https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/top-five-less-sensational-more-dangerous-things-remember-about-pat-robertson-1930-2023 Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:27:59 EDT Mark Hulsether 1fafedef-45b2-4e43-b38e-9022ff5e97e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/19/we-believe-god-has-special-plan-every-single-life-oklahomas-strict-punitive-and-total Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v. Wade was never “settled law,” despite what the pundits said. We conservative evangelicals were always sincerely gunning for Roe . I was born on July… Thu, 19 May 2022 05:23:18 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9d779d15-4cd9-42e8-80b4-b9f7973d725e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/03/how-evangelicalisms-twin-seeds-biblical-literalism-and-constitutional-originalism According to a leaked draft opinion published by Politico , the Supreme Court’s five constitutional originalists have joined Justice Alito in overturning Roe v. Wade . Many evangelicals are unsurprisingly elated. Legal scholars have found that belief that the Bible… Tue, 03 May 2022 04:26:57 EDT Austin Lee Steelman 0581c608-5537-4230-af7d-3b6207e70e10 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/07/evangelical-groundhog-day-times-identifies-religious-fervor-american-right-around-four In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a course on the history of American evangelicalism. One November day, a fellow student brought a copy of the New York Times to class. With a… Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:36:43 EDT Diana Butler Bass d937ed79-f172-4e3e-8b7f-0504d5d92488 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/13/uses-and-abuses-legacy-dr-martin-luther-king-jr In January 1994, a week after the King holiday, I walked into the lobby of my dorm to listen to representatives from the Israeli School of Universal Practical Knowledge (ISUPK), a Black Israelite group. Someone asked about Dr. Martin Luther… Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:59:52 EST A. E. Brooks-Key 70673a15-ab26-42c1-a20b-d2130e0bb39a https://politicalresearch.org/2021/12/17/pras-year-books From fighting White Evangelical Racism to searching for A Wider Type of Freedom, here’s what PRA’s been reading in 2021. Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:01:35 EST Political Research Associates d3df2c73-ad57-497c-b711-679b41ad4f69 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/12/13/unintended-consequences-overturning-roe-v-wade-may-endanger-cherished-evangelical “The strongest precedent for a right to teach a child at home is Roe v. Wade .” - Former HSLDA attorney Scott W. Somerville As the Supreme Court considers Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , a case that could… Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:24:32 EST R.L. Stollar 928ebfa4-f138-47bc-b043-b334e328f75e https://religiondispatches.org/2021/11/03/so-you-want-write-article-deflecting-all-blame-christianity-handy-guide For over five years, the brief presidency of Donald J. Trump and its wake have produced a certain kind of editorial that still doesn’t have a name. You know the topic, and the template: earnest reporter from a coastal city… Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:10:35 EDT Robert Repino c2020c55-5d2f-44cc-a49d-c47b155dc8c1 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/10/21/sowing-seeds-white-supremacy-through-education The Koch network has worked to undermine the rights and liberties of non-white communities through a decades-long assault on public education, with Critical Race Theory most recently in its sights. Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:50:24 EDT Jasmine Banks b302eb84-468a-4916-91ce-f65e20c44766 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/14/new-book-esteemed-sociologist-robert-wuthnow-struggles-show-why-religion-good-american At a time when Christian Nationalism is finally being recognized as a threat to democracy, not only by legacy media , but also by the National Council of Churches and the rapidly secularizing population of the US, Robert Wuthnow, the… Thu, 14 Oct 2021 03:31:04 EDT Peter Laarman 241cfe7a-5d47-4df3-ac75-e346a3655b29 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/14/free-city Eleanor Bader talks with authors Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion about their book FREE CITY! and the fight for public education in San Francisco Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:57:39 EDT Eleanor J. Bader 1a5831de-0319-4f80-8954-b14978a2b638