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  • History Wars Exposed

    Right-Wing Influence in APUSH Curriculum Update
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    On July 30, 2015, the College Board, creators of college-level curricula and testing for high school students, released an update to its Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) course. The revision came after what had already been a two-year battle…

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  • Not Fascism

    Trump is a Right-Wing Nativist Populist

    The demonization and scapegoating that accompanies right-wing populism in the United States is breeding a backlash movement that will take creative and bold approaches as we organize to defend democracy and diversity in the public square.

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  • Architects of Christian Right Transphobia Convene in Louisville Today

    In this post-marriage equality moment, the Christian Right is increasingly turning its attention toward the anti-LGBTQ battles it feels more confident about winning, specifically focusing on transgender communities. To bolster their arguments and…

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  • 2015 Values Voter Summit Live-Blog: Day 2

    Welcome to PRA’s live-blog of day 2 of the 2015 Values Voter Summit.

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  • 2015 Values Voter Summit Live-Blog: Day 1

    Welcome to PRA’s live-blog of the 2015 Values Voter Summit, sponsored by the Family Research Council.

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  • Using the "War on Drugs" to Arrest Pregnant Women

    The War On Drugs, launched in 1971 by Richard Nixon, has been repeatedly exposed as a failure. Yet, the same failed tactics used to fight drugs continue to be used to retain control over women’s reproduction. Drug laws are increasingly being…

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  • GOP Lawmaker Reveals ALEC-style Group Pushing Model Anti-Worker Bills

    Even as ALEC, the infamous bill-mill that produces right-wing model legislation for state lawmakers, hemorrhages corporate members and is discredited as a neutral voice in politics, other groups are adopting its tactics. PRA interviewed one…

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  • The Long Hurricane - 10 years later

    Survivors' Village at St. Bernard Projects, New Orleans.

    It’s been ten years since the Category 3 hurricane named Katrina came ashore in Louisiana, causing over 1,800 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. Five years after the storm, Political Research Associates published the below piece in…

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  • Anti-Death Penalty Activism Reinforces Racist Status Quo

    While abolishing the death penalty would clearly be a positive step forward, it is a limited and inadequate objective — particularly if achieved without any meaningful discussion of the racism and structural inequalities that produced and continue…

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  • World Congress of Families to Feature Anti-LGBTQ Family Scholars

    One of the leading exporters of U.S.-style culture wars—the World Congress of Families (WCF)—is hosting an international gathering of right-wing scholars and activists in Salt Lake City, Utah later this year. It will be WCF’s first major conference…

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  • Big Questions About Templeton

    How the Philanthropic Giant Legitimizes Faith Healing

    Templeton has sought to create a rapprochement between science and religion. This article traces the impact of the Foundation by exploring a slice of its influence on research into the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements.

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  • When Anti-Abortion Propaganda is Accepted as Investigative Journalism

    One of the underreported aspects of the current smear campaign against Planned Parenthood is the coarsening and polarizing of our civil discourse that usually accompanies discussions of the culture wars. This has been especially glaring because the…

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  • Catholic Democrats & the Group Behind the Anti-Planned Parenthood Videos

    Anti-abortion Catholic Democrats have long sought to cast their cause as progressive, but their actions have taken them into common cause with the Religious Right. This tendency has been on display during the brouhaha over the publication of the…

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  • Beyond the Hate Frame

    An Interview with Kay Whitlock & Michael Bronski

    What is called “hate violence”—violence directed at vulnerable and marginalized groups—is not abhorrent to respectable society. On the contrary, respectable society has provided the models, policies, and practices that marginalize people of color,…

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  • Charleston & Chattanooga

    How “Hatred” Hides History

    The Charleston and Chattanooga shooters had very similar lives and stories. Yet one’s actions are labeled as terrorism, and the others’ as “hate.”

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  • HR Lobbying Group Leading the Charge Against Labor Department's Overtime Expansion

    With few exceptions, it’s been decades since U.S. employers have had to sit across the bargaining table with their employees’ unions. Now that workers have less ability to protect their own interests, they are more vulnerable to the tricks…

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  • White House Fails to Reveal Faith-Based Initiative Budget, Though Some Agencies Will Share Theirs

    President Obama may not have continued George W. Bush’s over-reliance on religious organizations to carry out the functions of government. But six years into the “most transparent administration,” the activities and budget of the White House…

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  • U.S. "Army of God" Operative Plasters Kenya with Anti-LGBTQI Posters

    Jonathan O’Toole—an American anti-choice activist based in Nakuru, Kenya—makes no secret of his opinions about President Obama. “I hate Obama, I hate his guts,” he told me in a recent interview. “I’m against him. I’m his enemy.”

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  • The Past Repeats

    Christian Right Turns to Nullification to Counter Marriage Equality

    Last year in The Public Eye magazine, Rachel Tabachnick and Frank L. Cocozzelli warned of the trend on the religious and political Right toward the use of “nullification” as a means of resistance by states to federal laws of which they do not…

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  • Latin America in the Crosshairs

    Alliance Defending Freedom Takes Aim

    ADF, an Arizona-based, right-wing religious legal organization, has, in the last decade, made a dedicated push to grow its international portfolio. Having made significant inroads domestically, they moved into Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeast…

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