https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to right-wing media en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/06/i-choose-violence-literally The Right has a long history of inciting violence against their perceived enemies. Oftentimes, this comes in the form of “stochastic terrorism” from the likes of accounts like “ Libs of TikTok ,” whose lies about LGBTQ people and doctors… Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:10:34 EDT Annika Brockschmidt d6168d17-27c2-4823-a774-c5ec3d48d428 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/top-five-less-sensational-more-dangerous-things-remember-about-pat-robertson-1930-2023 Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:27:59 EDT Mark Hulsether 1fafedef-45b2-4e43-b38e-9022ff5e97e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/20/if-media-are-reluctant-properly-label-gops-racist-christian-nationalist-ideologies-well On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to kill people of color. He murdered ten people and wounded three others before he was arrested. All ten who were killed were Black. The racism… Fri, 20 May 2022 11:52:48 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 7baf028e-84e2-4d11-8a95-a7f4bb884b17 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/10/missing-element-conversation-christian-nationalism-and-freedom-whiteness A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and that’s all to the good… Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:34:42 EST Peter Laarman 2c38c293-8aae-4588-aa81-826c59e2a925 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/16/faith-baiting-minnesota-and-elsewhere-follows-project-blitz-playbook-0 Critics say any such display of the Ten Commandments in this way, may also violate the Oklahoma state constitution. But whatever the fate of these bills, the Christian Right and the politicians who cater to it have a long game in mind, and most seem unaware of the game itself. Wed, 16 May 2018 01:35:24 EDT Frederick Clarkson 834209cc-29a8-42e7-b4a4-10168116587f https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/fight-white-supremacy-we-must-resist-essentialism-author-responds-0 This piece is a response to Rumya Putcha’s criticism of the author’s original RD piece, “Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.”In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist… Tue, 08 May 2018 01:42:20 EDT Andrea R. Jain 841b18e0-a1eb-48e5-af70-e55d2f5abada https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/rd-response-fox-crit-white-supremacy-yoga-engages-victim-blaming-0 This piece is a response to Andrea Jain’s “Fox News Controversy on Yoga Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” Read Jain’s subsequent response here . Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the… Tue, 08 May 2018 01:42:16 EDT Rumya Putcha 02863c88-c928-478a-a141-c31f7feaeea5 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/fight-white-supremacy-we-must-resist-essentialism-author-responds I do not aspire to be a gatekeeper here. On the contrary, I think it is simply worth asking the question: how can we open the gate and connect with the public in a way that best achieves our shared goal of dismantling capitalist and white supremacist orthodoxies? Tue, 08 May 2018 12:34:31 EDT Andrea R. Jain c350f069-ab15-43fb-b499-8a23d8c8d2b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/08/rd-response-fox-crit-white-supremacy-yoga-engages-victim-blaming Where is the line between keeping scholars honest and undercutting them, especially when such scholarship is meant to shine a light on systemic inequality? Tue, 08 May 2018 12:30:44 EDT Rumya Putcha f28952be-9b62-4414-a641-791b9a89c897 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/06/surprising-catholic-roots-war-xmas The love between Donald Trump and white evangelical Protestants remains strong according to a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute. Nearly three-quarters of all white evangelical Protestants—72%—approve of Trump’s job performance. This isn’t surprising, as Trump has taken… Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:40:16 EST Patricia Miller 545bee28-9295-407c-a358-11834ca0d903 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/05/why-being-faith-friendly-isnt-worth-it-democrats Religion and the social issues it stands in for are about the last things anybody votes on. People vote their race, then their pocketbook, then their need for national security. Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:51:26 EST Daniel Schultz 0576bde9-b137-401c-a0c1-ce8bfea05f28 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/31/breitbart-how-right-wing-media-transformed-american-politics It didn’t all start with Glenn Beck. Mon, 31 Oct 2016 01:29:33 EDT Eric C. Miller 76e7df71-3e76-4fd4-b365-10381e94f344 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/03/cruz-and-evangelical-illusion Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have donated $15 million to Keep the Promise II… Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:16:56 EST Sarah Posner a7f308dd-7264-492c-9ead-10e841e895aa https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/25/numbers-schnumbers-why-evangelicals-should-worry-about-trumps-popularity What would journalists and pundits do without Donald Trump? Indeed, one wonders how they ever got through our nation’s inexplicably long campaign season without him! While the Donald has inspired countless columns about myriad topics, much recent commentary has focused… Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:03:13 EDT Jonathan Orbell bfcd55ed-8805-4127-90e3-345746ff7a18 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/24/test-trump-and-religious-right Last night the Family Research Council announced that Donald Trump would, after all, be speaking at the annual Values Voters Summit tomorrow. As I noted last week, Trump’s initial decision to decline the speaking invitation risked him alienating a crucial… Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:00:51 EDT Sarah Posner 07f6cbcc-2d6b-492c-bb1a-50663d04495f https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/30/what-conservative-christian-fake-trans-bathroom-creeper-has-do-suburban-anxiety In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Sarah Morice-Brubaker explores how some conservative Christians channel their anxieties about social change and urban environments through imaginary, fake-transgender bathroom… Tue, 30 Jun 2015 02:13:40 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker 5c492c51-1edb-4e05-af09-398e89a5235c https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/06/bill-oreillys-biblical-misremembering The Bible is full of mistakes. Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:13:51 EST Jess Peacock 08f8933b-bb9e-4ea9-9c80-655ac4b0b8bb https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/03/infanticide-still-not-growing-movement-30-years-pro-life-fudging Pro-life conservatives keep falling for the same urban legend: Somewhere, the logic of abortion has devalued human life to the point it is now acceptable to kill newborns, infants, even toddlers. It’s not true, but the rumors are taken for… Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:36:56 EST Daniel Silliman 8ce0d7ce-2d32-443c-8af7-a1b3092d9f59 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/18/im-dreaming-white-christmas Megyn Kelly’s infamous comments on the color of Santa and Christ didn’t just spring fully formed from Fox News host’s mind. Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:40:03 EST Evan Derkacz c7d36a49-887e-4dba-ad29-2ca900b74b41 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/13/christian-bashing-air-force-officer-story-just Unless by “essentially fired” you mean “not fired at all.” Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:13:57 EDT Rob Shryock c3e38109-e761-40db-a686-ac0cce8addaa https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/09/atheists-who-dont-under-god-can-leave Bush’s former press secretary and 4 friends “discuss” atheism. Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:02:14 EDT Rob Shryock bce9166e-7c97-4d75-85c0-c212ddcdb0d2 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/19/reza-aslans-viral-fox-news-interview-reveals-more-just-christian-privilege When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage. Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:48:01 EDT Jeffrey Scholes 1cf78bd0-74f9-445e-80e0-26366a0d063d https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/08/reza-aslans-missed-opportunity With apologies to Reza Aslan, he is not an unbiased scholar of the historical Jesus, or of the history of Islam, or of any other phenomenon in the study of religion. Nor is any Christian or Jewish scholar, or any liberal or conservative scholar. I just wish he had said so. Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:59:30 EDT Micha'el Rosenberg b83304a1-f6be-42ee-adeb-50c52d1e2d24 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/29/update-fox-news-tries-gotcha-game-reza-aslan In which the author of a new Jesus bio repeatedly addresses his Muslim background. Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:40:24 EDT The Editors 9cb6ead8-fe67-4d58-bdba-96018a99434b https://religiondispatches.org/2013/06/18/female-breadwinnersdeath-civilization-says-fox-panel To these guys, the idea of women working outside the home is destroying American culture. They’re saying that a society in which a majority of women support their families cannot possibly be compatible with a strong, traditional, vibrant society. Yet we need only look to the traditional Jewish culture of Eastern Europe of less than two centuries ago in order to find an example that gives the lie to conservative handwringing over women’s work. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:42:06 EDT Melissa Weininger 2d6ccaa0-5c29-4581-8311-3025d09ad9ab