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Exploiting Equity

How the Pioneer Institute Co-opts the Concept of Social Justice

This report demonstrates how three of the Pioneer Institute’s leading claims that their education reforms create greater equity in schools are not only unfounded but that these reforms disproportionately harm communities of color and immigrant…

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The Proud Boys

A Republican Party Street Gang

The Proud Boys became a national focus in October 2018 when independent journalist Sandi Bachom posted video of a violent confrontation in New York City.

Article

The Struggle for LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges and Universities

A professor offers a prayer during a rally by the LGBTQ Christian community at Azusa Pacific University to show support after the school reinstated a ban on same-sex relationships, October 1, 2018. Credit: Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

When Gary Campbell enrolled in Baptist Bible College (now Clarks Summit University) in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in 2001, he knew he was gay. He was among those students who, in an effort to repress their sexual orientation, choose the…

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Racism in Anti-Trans “Feminist” Activism

It’s notable that anti-trans feminists are employing similar racist dog-whistles that have been used by the Right for centuries to create out-sized fear and outrage among their constituents and followers to justify the out-sized time and energy…

Article

Losing their Religion

A Roundtable Discussion

In the 1980s, the Moral Majority helped usher in an era of politicized Christianity in the United States. The breadth of Christian Right activity since then, from the evangelical Right, to fundamentalist homeschooling, to cross-denominational…

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Pure by Linda Kay Klein

Book Review

Evangelical “purity” culture, roughly defined, is the belief that Christianity requires sexual abstinence before (heterosexual) marriage, especially for girls and women, and promises sexual fulfillment to those who save sex until marriage.

Book Review

What’s the Matter with Secularism?

How New Atheism Feeds the Right

Image of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett

Over the last few years, incidents like these have created a deep rift that’s split the atheist community. At the root of these battles is a question of identity: should the atheist movement strive to be part of a progressive coalition and uphold a…

Article

The U.S. Far Right’s 2018 Election Results

A Blind-Alley for the Alt Right

A large number of candidates with ties to the Far Right ran for office in the 2018 midterm elections, mostly as Republicans. They ranged from neonazis to mainstream Republicans who courted the Far Right for support.

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Alt Right and Far Right Mobilization in 2018

A Timeline

London protest in respond to President Trump’s visit, July 2018

There is no reason to expect the Alt Right, Alt Lite, and associated Far Right groups to disappear in 2019. It was Trump that energized the movement, and it will remained tied to his presidency.

Article

Anti-LGBTQ media outlets peddle myths about autism and trans identity

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), founded in 2002 in opposition to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) support for adoption by LGBTQ couples, was cited in one of several articles published by right-wing news outlets in late…

Article

Insurgent Supremacists

Author Q&A with Matthew N. Lyons

Confrontation at the stairs leading into Emancipation Park during the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” Rally.

This September, Lyons spoke to David Neiwert, researcher and author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, about his new book.

Q&A

Bringing Bad Sex Ed Back

Trump’s Rebranding of Abstinence-Only

Chalkboard with text that reads "Sex Education"

In a private session intended to set language for gender equality policies and to brief non-governmental organizations on U.S. priorities for women’s issues, a senior advisor from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bethany Kozma…

Article

Kochs in Pro-Immigrant Clothing

LIBRE’s Quest to Deliver the Latinx Powerhouse to the Right

Daniel Garza speaking at a LIBRE Initiative forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2015.

LIBRE’s overarching goal is twofold: to convince Latinxs that laissez-faire capitalism will empower them and to draw the “sleeping giant” of American electoral politics to the Right.

Article

A Classicist’s Guide to Misappropriated History

Ancient Greece and Rome are an origin point of sorts for the Alt Right: an imagined golden age of White supremacist patriarchy they can idealize and aspire to recreate.

Article

The Road to Flint

The Right’s 50-Year Anti-City Agenda

It’s not by chance that the U.S. is full of hollowed-out urban centers. Residents are disproportionately poor and people of color, surrounded by wealthier and Whiter suburbs. It traces back to the Great Migration, which brought great numbers of…

Article

Multi-Racial Democracy, or Authoritarianism?

Tarso Luís Ramos speaking at the Facing Race conference.

I’m a pastor’s kid and I was raised to believe in Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspiring assertion that the arc of history may be long, but it bends towards justice. And, I was raised in a family that had to flee our country when Brazilian democracy…

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Advancing Immigrant, Muslim, and Refugee Justice In A Period Of Ascendant White Nationalism

Executive Summary

This report seeks to document the effects of the rise of a White nationalist movement whose policy prescriptions and rhetoric on immigrant, refugee, and Muslim populations echo the White House’s, and to generate new thinking and strategizing to…

Report

Shooting in Tallahassee Illustrates Increasing Misogynist Violence

When the news broke on November 2, that a male shooter had killed two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, George Sodini immediately came to my mind.

Article

National Anti-Transgender Organizations Bolster “No on Question 3” Campaign to Overturn Public Accommodations Protections in Massachusetts

On November 6, Massachusetts voters will decide several ballot measures, including Question 3, which asks voters to overturn public accommodations protections in the Bay State based on gender identity.

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Support for Oregon’s Ballot Measure 105 Reveals Collaboration Between Right-Wing Sheriffs and Anti-Immigrant Networks

In August 2018, 16 of Oregon’s 36 sheriffs signed a letter in support of ballot measure 105, the referendum in the November 6 election to repeal Oregon’s 31-year-old sanctuary law.

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