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It would be wrong to think that it is only Texas Governor Rick Perry’s boasting over his state’s punitive body count in a recent Republican debate that has put the death penalty back in the news (Texas led the nation with 167 executions from 1976-1998 and still leads with an incredible 234 since Perry became governor in 2000). Not at all. It is only our collective racial amnesia and apparent moral callousness where death is concerned that can make it seem this way.

Sarah Palin is out to wreck the GOP and Obama—whether she runs or not—and her hardscrabble and devoted ‘Babies, Guns, and Jesus’ followers are behind her.

No more shaming of job creation.

Republicans’ Islamophobic comments in Monday’s NH debate is instructive.

Skinny jeans, strip mall haircuts, and leather jacket-clad ambassadors.

Says a carpenter knows a three-legged stool needs to be strong.

Chip Berlet and Frederick Clarkson analyze the results of the 2008 election through the lens of religious and party affiliation, showing the enduring power of the Christian Right.