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The Past and Present of the Polish March of Independence
In the early afternoon on November 11, 2019, 250,000 people marched through the streets of Warsaw, intentionally and unintentionally participating in a March of Independence organized by far-right organizations and political parties.
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Public Eye
Once Emulated by American White Nationalists, Greece’s Anti-Migrant Party Faces an Uncertain Future
Golden Dawn’s rise to parliamentary prominence provided a model for likeminded White nationalists the world over and inspired virulent anti-immigrant violence culminating in a high profile murder case still under review.
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Religion Dispatches
When I was a freshman at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, I was working out on a bench press at the gym when a fellow student came over and asked if he could help me with the heavier weights…
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Religion Dispatches
One has to imagine that the rabidly anti-LGBTQ Franklin Graham, President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, expected the kind of culture war conflict he…
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Religion Dispatches
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. President Donald Trump have a lot in common. Neither man has much respect for the rule of law . Bolsonaro enjoys buffoonishly attacking the press as much as…
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Religion Dispatches
Last Friday, the House’s T om Lantos Commission on Human Rights heard testimony that Russia’s human rights record, including its record on religious freedom, is worsening . There were few surprises in…
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Religion Dispatches
I’ve said it before, and if you’re reading this, you’ve very likely heard the same thing darkly muttered among liberals and progressives if you haven’t said it yourself: I never thought anything could…
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Religion Dispatches
This week has not been a very good one for the arts. Or history. The very same week President Trump announced that he was, once again, trying to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the…
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Religion Dispatches
Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.
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Religion Dispatches
In right-wing circles, theories about cultural Marxism in the era of Trumpism come entangled with other anti-Semitic theories, often arguing that George Soros and a shadowy “globalist” cabal are working to dissolve national borders and sovereignty into a totalitarian-communist “New World Order.”
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