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  • Resisting Culture Warriors Down Under

    How Australian Activists Fought Back Against the World Congress of Families

    According to one of the activists who successfully infiltrated last weekend’s World Congress of Families (WCF) event in Melbourne, Australia, Larry Jacobs—vice president of the U.S.-based Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and managing…

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  • Sticks and Cages, Carrots & Cash

    The Right’s Racist Assaults on Reproductive Freedom

    The criminal justice system deploys a variety of methods to deny incarcerated people their rights to have children, and because mass incarceration is a racist project, African American people bear the brunt of this punishment.

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  • Manufactured Emergency

    The Neoliberal Assault on Michigan
    Protest signs that say "UAW on strike"

    Those who want to privatize public services and destroy unions have made some successful incursions into the once union-friendly state. Whether Michiganders can mount an effective resistance remains to be seen.

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  • Neoliberal Feminists Don’t Want Women to Organize

    A group of women at a table, with computers and books.

    To say that Sheryl Sandberg ruined my life would be to make the same mistake that Sandberg herself makes—it would be to assume that the successes or failures of an individual woman, feminist or no, equal the successes or failures of feminism.…

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  • The Shell Game of Contingent Employment

    A person carrying a sign that reads "Human need not corporate greed"

    In 2011, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a corporate partner of the Marriott hotel chain, used a general contractor that it had hired to renovate guest rooms at the Host-owned Copley Marriott in Boston.   A convoluted web of…

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  • To Shock the Heart of the Nation

    A group of protesters led by Dr. Rev. William Barber II

    An Interview with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President, North Carolina NAACP

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  • AUDIO: Officer Who Pushed CNN's Don Lemon Claims There's a Military Plot For One-World Government

    St. Louis County police officer Dan Page is best known for shoving CNN host Don Lemon while the journalist was covering the Michael Brown protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Page has since been suspended after video of his speech to a right-wing militia…

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  • If Democracy is a Crime Under Religious Right's Biblical Law, What is the Punishment?

    If the Old Testament Biblical Laws that are foundational to the contemporary Christian Right are to be the standard, then it stands to reason that the biblically prescribed punishments would, in their view, fit the crimes. If that is so, then many…

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  • Michigan Seeks to Become Third State to Protect Youth From Ex-Gay Therapy

    Conversion or “ex-gay” therapy continues to come under fire, this time in Michigan where Representative Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) has introduced House Bill (HB) 5703to ban “sexual orientation change efforts” for minors.

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  • Museveni Plays Politics with Human Rights

    On Friday, Uganda’s Constitutional Court struck down the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) on procedural grounds. While this ruling is a significant victory for Uganda’s LGBTI community, the road forward remains rocky and steep.

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  • Neoliberalizing Public Higher Ed

    The Threat of Free Market Ideology
    Graduation hats being thrown in the air

    The current crisis within higher ed is often discussed primarily in terms of rising tuition and student debt, but the debt crisis is just one particularly ugly manifestation of a larger trend involving increased corporate investment in college…

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  • Let's Not Ignore the Overt Calls for Violence from the League of the South

    The League of the South is involved not in an eccentric nostalgia for retrograde racial politics and wishful thinking about secession of the Southern states so much as a revolutionary vision of theocratic, white nationalist violence.

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  • The Christian Dominionists Who Benefit from David Tyree’s Fame

    Former New York Giant David Tyree’s personal views on gay marriage have been the topic of much debate since his recent hiring as director of player development for that franchise, but the press has overlooked an even more significant problem. For…

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  • Dominionism Disguised as Aid

    Rick Warren's Expanding Influence in Rwanda

    Expanding access to basic healthcare is an important and valuable goal, but what happens when those made responsible for providing the care also hold conservative religious ideologies? What sort of sexual and health education is being taught? How…

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  • Anti-Gay Gatekeepers of the NFL

    The NY Giants’ David Tyree Controversy

    The New York Giants’ hiring of former player David Tyree as the director of player development has resulted in controversy and a statement from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The controversy stems from a 2011 interview with the National…

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  • Eugenics as U.S. Nationhood

    Situating Population Control in a Settler State

    The genocidal practices undertaken during the formation of the U.S. are well documented and fairly well known, as are some of those implemented in the 19th and early 20th centuries. More contemporary iterations of the U.S. genocidal project are less…

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  • Of Bombs and Wombs

    Nativist Myths of Weaponized Fertility

    In my last article, I discussed the Right’s fear-mongering narrative that contraceptive use and other exercises of reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are catapulting civilization into decline. Curiously, there is also a swath of powerful right…

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  • Whose Family? Religious Right's "Family Values" Agenda Advances Internationally

    Recently, we’ve seen a new round of right-wing “family values” efforts at the international level, focused particularly on the United Nations.

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  • “Libertarian Scaife” and His Religious Right Legacy

    Richard Mellon Scaife was the “epitome of a libertarian,” or at least, that’s how he was described in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review following his death on July 4. “Libertarian Scaife” is apparently how he wished to be remembered in the city where…

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  • Archbishop Tells Africa Homosexuality is a Human Rights Issue, Will American Culture War Exporters Listen?

    The Archbishop’s courageous words came at the time when Zambians were awaiting the ruling on a same-sex couple James Mwape and Phillip Mubiana, who were pulled from their home and arrested on charges of being homosexual in May, 2013.

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