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During a January closed-door meeting at the Pentagon, a Trump administration official reportedly warned a Vatican ambassador that America had the military power to do whatever it wants in the world…

In this episode, Koki sits down with PRA’s Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner to discuss the outset of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, how the war compares to a history of U.S. imperial…

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…

Journalist Masha Gessen dubbed 2017 “the year Russian LGBT persecution defied belief.” Pink News called 2017 “ the year of the homophobic purge” featuring “brutal crackdowns across the world.” The…

RD: What inspired you to write The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny? My book is about occultism and spiritual experimentation in modern Iran, and I examine these…

Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded in 2016, reported on its August gathering in Accra, Ghana, which drew more than 30…

Yesterday, after the ISIS attack on Teheran, this astonishing paragraph appeared in a CNN article: Now, it is true that Saudi Arabia and Iran “have had strained relations,” but these strained…

At People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog this week, I posted highlights of how the U.S. Religious Right made life more difficult and dangerous for the world’s LGBT people in 2016…

Respected journalists are no longer holding Trump accountable but have switched to presenting him as a reasonable politician.

South Africa: Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman, Loses License as Anglican Priest Mpho Tutu-Van Furth, Bishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, was forced to give up her license to function as a priest in the…