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MAGA’s Imperial Ambitions

Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST

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 followed several months of U.S. military strikes on boats in…

Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

Peter Montgomery — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:16 EDT

Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the…

Putin's Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There's Reason to Believe it'll Go Mainstream

Thomas Lecaque — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:30:57 EDT

It starts with a tweet: https://twitter.com/realRickWiles/status/1585375961033605120?s=20&t=DZQ… And it is, of course, not simply that. Shortly before, in support of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin appointing a “chief exorcist” against Satanism, he said : “Can you think of anybody, in the…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

Ben Lorber — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT

Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion, O Lord, over this nation”…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson's Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

Annika Brockschmidt — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:40:12 EDT

Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they, too, are ripped. A blond, equally fit man shoots at plastic bottles, a man’s hand grasps a cow’s udder. The music swells dramatically—so far it’s…

Russia and the US Have More in Common Than You Might Think

Chrissy Stroop — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:51:02 EST

As I write, Russia has invaded Ukraine, thousands of people have reportedly died, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the country. It’s a more comprehensive version of the invasion carried out in 2014, when president Vladimir Putin invoked…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

Patricia Miller — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 03:20:13 EDT

There’s a certain satisfaction for those of us who came of age at the time of the Christian Right’s ascendency to see such widespread acknowledgement of what many of us knew all along—that the so-called Christian Right was always a…

Steve Bannon and the Conservative "Cafeteria Catholics"

Patricia Miller — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:07:24 EDT

The phrase “cafeteria Catholic” first gained currency in the mid-1980s to describe—mostly disparagingly—progressive Catholics who pick and choose from church doctrine, following the precepts they like on poverty and peace while ignoring those they didn’t like on sex—particularly regarding birth…

VIDEO: "First-Generation, Indian-American Muslim Kid" Makes Fun of the President. Onstage.

Sunnivie Brydum — Tue, 02 May 2017 12:30:30 EDT

In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily Show’s “first-generation, Indian-American Muslim kid,” Hasan Minhaj, was in rare form, subjecting the D.C. press corps and the absent Trump administration to the biting, funny-because-its-true…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

Aryeh Cohen — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:20:02 EDT

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

Sunnivie Brydum — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:27:17 EST

Some of the most egregious untruths told to CPAC attendees today, complete with accurate information to contradict the claims made

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

Anita Little — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:50:34 EST

Turns out it’s quite a lot!

Bannon's "Alt-Facts" Satan

Spencer Dew — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:46:39 EST

“The fight for real power is over what gets to count as a fact in the first place. Truth only matters insofar as you have the power to determine what is truth.”

The "Religious Freedom" President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

Sunnivie Brydum — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:08:02 EST

For all his talk of protecting religious freedom, one of the First Amendment’s five sacred rights, it’s taken President Donald Trump less than one week to start kicking the legs out from under each of the others. The new administration…

Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?

Patricia Miller — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:55:26 EST

Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.

Media Hit Hard On Trump's White Supremacist Appointee, But Which "Media"?

Carmen Celestini — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:20:28 EST

President-Elect Trump’s announced this weekend that Breitbart News chairman, Steve Bannon, would be his chief strategist.