https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Global Right en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/23/end-times-rhetoric-netanyahus-rational-actor-mask-has-fallen Shortly after the first U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, a report went viral alleging that a commanding officer had told U.S. troops that this was a war “to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Although the report has… Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:03 EDT Isaac Ginsberg Miller 36b6aec9-811a-411c-b5bb-24db300b1f07 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/us-press-missed-rubios-nod-far-right-german-movement-end-holocaust-guilt Before embracing Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, and wishing him success, Marco Rubio gave a speech at this year’s Munich security conference that was littered with White Nationalist talking points. From references to the superiority of “Western Civilization” and the… Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:05:55 EST Annika Brockschmidt 205e1ec4-c308-4a02-b10d-9026e353899c https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/ugly-religious-history-behind-venezuela-coup Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, Trump stated , “The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a… Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:13:11 EST Brock Bahler a11e2788-f311-4266-a22c-4b477868daf9 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/17/us-militarys-jerusalem-cross-fetish It’s never a good sign when the Jerusalem Cross hits the news in the United States. Which is unfortunate, since the symbol, which features prominently on the flag of Georgia (the country, not the state), has been used to signify… Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 7988ce0d-e3ef-4012-926a-597ffec7de0c https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/09/nar-vows-stage-largest-ever-gathering-christian-women Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency called A Million Women . As was the case with the Million Man March and so… Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:47:34 EDT Frederick Clarkson cb39a01e-e8b9-484e-b13e-606114ad01cc https://politicalresearch.org/2025/04/29/global-fight-against-lgbti-rights A Q&A with authors Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl on their book, The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights, about the methods used by moral conservative transnational networks to strip LGBTQ people of their rights. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:24:24 EDT J. Gieseking 131f07f3-1950-4104-941c-d29d22bbed86 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/01/29/moral-conservatism-behind-global-resistance-lgbti-rights An excerpt from The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights explores the global coordination of movements around Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) rights. Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:01:38 EST Phillip Ayoub , Kristina Stoeckl 872ce117-da92-4669-af4d-c9aac36d2f38 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/01/23/right-wing-grievances-progressive-clothing-canadas-far-right-mariel-cooksey-and-amy-mack Koki speaks with researchers Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack about the Far Right in Canada today. They discuss the evolution of the Far Right and its disparate movements and the current rise to prominence of the Far Right in provincial politics. Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:59:07 EST Political Research Associates 3f3b1926-ce9c-4d8e-9298-9c80a1ab30b2 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/09/while-nixon-sought-secretly-screw-political-enemies-trumps-dictatorial-desires-are-less On August 16, 1971, White House Counsel John Dean circulated a confidential memo to Nixon loyalists titled “Dealing with our Political Enemies” which proposed a plan for the administration to best “use the available federal machinery to screw our political… Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:23:16 EST Steven Gardiner cc46ba44-d4b7-4459-a95e-87adc24681a6 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/11/21/haf-way-supremacy-rebranding-hindu-supremacy-minority-rights-conversation-safa-ahmed-and This interview with Savera Coalition partners dives into an expose on the influential HAF, as a Hindu supremacist institution masquerading as a civil rights organization. Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:16:21 EST Political Research Associates df5ba81e-d849-4104-aaed-eda88133f1e5 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/30/hindu-supremacy-and-multiracial-us-far-right Over the last several decades, Hindu supremacists have been making inroads into the U.S. Far Right. Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:38:15 EDT Savera 945f3296-9a73-4837-be59-d5cb66f7cc9d https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/15/haf-way-supremacy The Hindu American Foundation has been influential for 20 years, masquerading as an advocacy group for minority rights, but is better understood as a key actor in a global Hindu supremacist movement and an emerging player in the U.S. Far Right. Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:18:49 EDT Savera 53d7d588-2251-44d4-ac62-1450f16b7d11 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/09/03/taiwans-2024-elections Taiwan is often described as Asia’s freest country. Kayo Chang Black details Taiwan’s political history and how the 2024 election cycle resurfaced the authoritarian threat that lurks within Taiwan’s democracy. Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:48:00 EDT Kayo Chang Black be2b5895-9382-4f21-95d1-7c917942b2b6 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/11/pro-life-theater-open-white-nationalism-and-virility-fear-day-3-natcon The closing day of NatCon 2024 (day 3) opened with a benediction by Reverend Uriesou Brito: a Christian nationalist, staunch defender of Doug Wilson, and Senior Pastor of Providence Church in Pensacola, Florida. Humanity versus unhuman and the Hot Gulag… Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:41:35 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 34ce8754-e58f-4af5-a909-a1a6bcab5764 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/10/white-nationalist-mottos-fate-jews-new-christian-state-and-appeal-heaven-humor-day-2 No friends on the “other side of the aisle”—only enemies In a morning panel of the second day of NatCon 2024, a group of Republican senators hammered home a confrontational message. Sen. Jim DeMint : “There is no reasonable consensus… Wed, 10 Jul 2024 06:29:12 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber f0e00bda-e8a2-4670-935a-2c1be898b490 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/27/putins-year-family-declaration-blends-russian-nationalism-far-right-rhetoric-global-pro On Fridays, Religion Dispatches will present an article from the Spring 2024 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. On December 31, 2023, President Vladimir Putin wished… Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:06:51 EDT Irina Smolevskaya fa2dc085-a928-435f-8275-2110d00b64d7 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/06/how-right-sets-mood Annie Wilkinson and Mary Reynolds interview Carol Mason, three years after publishing her article “Sentimentalizing Resentment.” Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:47:27 EDT Annie Wilkinson, Mary Reynolds 9fff0842-de23-4c24-9e85-eeab74749087 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/03/fox-news-farther-right-calls-violence-and-retribution-follow-trump-verdict When Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York on Thursday, it was to be expected that the Right would take the news badly. And indeed—the various factions of the US… Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:21:00 EDT Annika Brockschmidt beff88df-e4e0-4ed9-9a9d-34f4a7425664 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation-revised-2025 The story of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) lives at the epicenter of the intersection of politics and religion in the US—and reporting about it is as essential as it is challenging. The story of NAR is happening in the… Thu, 23 May 2024 04:58:12 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 718434ec-a88e-45dd-910b-153d686ea9bf https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/17/evangelical-mission-spread-gospel-muslims-journalist-tells-global-story-about In her just-released book Soul By Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims, journalist Adriana Carranca follows a Brazilian missionary known as Luiz and his wife Gis from their humble origins in Northeastern Brazil through their time… Fri, 17 May 2024 04:30:39 EDT Daniel Schultz 354aeb44-4297-4c6e-977b-33b35e73ef40 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/05/17/global-trail-violence PRA’s newest partner, Savera: United Against Supremacy, reports on the violent, far-right Hindu supremacist movement behind Modi’s government. Fri, 17 May 2024 09:44:45 EDT Savera f9f3060d-5a85-4a27-8b75-cd602f564949 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/05/16/putins-year-family In her commentary, Irina Smolevskaya scrutinizes Putin’s appeal to “traditional family values” as a reversal of U.S. Cold War containment rhetoric appealing to domestic and transnational conservatives alike. Thu, 16 May 2024 04:02:32 EDT Irina Smolevskaya dbfe0864-6d28-4079-81b2-538007dde12f https://politicalresearch.org/2024/05/16/beyond-border-security Ethan Fauré discusses U.S. immigration politics and considers how two books, The Case for Open Borders and My Fourth Time We Drowned, challenge “border crisis” narratives. Thu, 16 May 2024 01:22:10 EDT Ethan Fauré dfdedbe7-7024-45fc-b661-6f760fdb9a31 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/04/23/great-evangelical-divorce-speaker-mike-johnsons-breakup-marjorie-taylor-greene-could-be When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed through aid to Ukraine this week, it did more than green-light funds to support the Ukrainians. In recent weeks, he changed from hard-core opposition to supporting Ukraine to championing its cause. His… Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:44:42 EDT Diana Butler Bass 7464cb0a-fc27-40e1-a35a-d1de2637677a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/19/threat-democracy-runs-deep-mathematics-could-address-abominable-state-representation-and In November 1990, an election took place in Bosnia, my home country, that changed the course of my life. I had no idea that it would; at sixteen, I was too busy growing out my hair, playing in a band… Tue, 19 Mar 2024 02:30:29 EDT Ismar Volić de106af0-d78c-4a62-b56f-33fc9f731657