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Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Watch the roundtable discussion on the culture war and how the Right wields it to further their own agenda.
Webinar
Religion Dispatches
Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde massacre most of the past week. I’ve been so focused on facts and arguments, I haven’t sobbed. But the…
Article
Political Research Associates
A Q&A with authors Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall
Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall talk to PRA about the historical origins of today’s Blue Lives Matter movement and its deep roots in structural systems of power.
Q&A
Political Research Associates
A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror
Gardiner reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, looking at what Ackerman got right, and where he could have gone further in his analysis.
Book Review
Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Anti-Sex Work Feminists have a (deadly) listening problem: a problem listening to the people whose lives and livelihoods have been made economically and socially precarious by the state and made subject to daily violence by its carceral arm.
Webinar
Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Hundreds of elected county sheriffs across the United States, are progressing a nativist anti-immigrant as armed agents of the state working in concert to further support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion.
Webinar
Political Research Associates
No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.
What would the U.S look like if 9/11 never happened? Naomi Braine poses an interesting counterfactual on the rise of the Right, nativism, the increase in surveillance, and the lives of people of color.
Article
Public Eye
An excerpt from Prisons Make us Safer by Victoria Law, published by Beacon Press.
Article
Public Eye
A new report, excerpted here, interrogates how enforcement of coronavirus-related public health orders replicates and expands the failed law enforcement paradigm that unevenly targets populations already most vulnerable to the pandemic.
Article
Public Eye
The long history of entanglement between the Far Right and law enforcement has led to the normalization of violence in the U.S., thrown into stark relief by the January 6th insurrection.
Article