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  • Race-Based Roundup Revealed

    Immigration advocates have long asserted that ICE raids at workplaces and in neighborhoods sweep people up based on race, rather than facts about individuals violating immigration laws. ICE’s internal investigation of a Baltimore sweep now reveals…

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  • PRA in Progressive Times

    His reign has ended, but Bush's malady lingers on

    The moment Barack Obama took the oath of office as President, many progressives breathed a sigh of relief—however tentative—that the Bush years were finally over. But it was clear within days that the conservatives have not abandoned Washington and…

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  • PRA Receives Major Grant To Investigate Domestic Surveillance Post 9/11

    Political Research Associates, a nonprofit think tank known for its investigations of the U.S. Right and political repression, has received a $500,000 grant to conduct a multi-city investigation of how domestic surveillance changed after September…

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  • Saving Monsignor Ryan

    Refuting the Myths of Neoconservative Roman Catholic Economics

    In October 1936, a Roman Catholic priest and professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America took to the airwaves to defend the New Deal from scurrilous attacks made by another Catholic priest, the demagogic radio personality of…

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  • Post-Palin Feminism

    Sarah Palin in a white jacket, in front of a crowd, smiling.

    From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, National Review Institute’s Kate O’Beirne, 59, pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern…

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  • The Culture Wars Are Still Not Over

    The Religious Right in the States and Beyond

    In the wake of pre-election punditry that the Religious Right is dead and that the so called Culture Wars are over, I wrote a piece for The Public Eye: “The Culture Wars Are Not Over: The Institutionalization of the Christian Right.”1 The year was…

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  • Leaderless Counterterrorism Strategy

    The “War on Terror,” Civil Liberties, and Flawed Scholarship

    The effectiveness of counterterrorism efforts by the Bush Administration is compromised by flawed analyses based on sloppy scholarship by Marc Sageman and Bruce Hoffman—two leading experts heavily relied on by policymakers. The resulting programs of…

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  • American Life League's Pill Kills Day Links Birth Control and Abortion

    Protesters holding banners. One says I Stand with Planned Parenthood, another one says "Don't take away my birth control"

    Thirty-seven-year-old Erik Martin says he got involved in the American Life League shortly after his eight and 10-year-old children came home from their Blacksburg, Virginia, public school several years ago with an illustrated comic book entitled,…

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  • Becoming a Christian Citizen

    Electoral Lessons from the Religious Right for the Religious Left

    The main reason why the Religious Right became powerful is not what most people may think. Some would undoubtedly point to the powerful communications media. Others might identify charismatic leaders, the development of “wedge issues,” or even…

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  • All in The Family

    Jeff Sharlet’s new book The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, is in the best tradition of American investigative journalism. Sharlet, a scholar of religion based at New York University, writes with insight, verve and…

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  • How Roman Catholic Neocons Peddle Natural Law into Debates about Life and Death

    As the rightist philosopher Richard Weaver famously said, “ideas have consequences.” And I can tell you from personal experience some of the consequences of at least one idea, that of “natural law.”

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  • Nativist Bedfellows

    The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics
    a brown fence following around a dirt road that fades into green mountains.

    If the September 2007 Values Voters Summit is anything to go by, the Christian Right is now nearly as worked up about illegal immigration as about abortion and same-sex marriage. At that political gathering—sponsored annually in Washington D.C. by…

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  • One Raid at a Time

    How Immigrant Crackdowns Build the National Security State

    Most explanations of the relentless pursuit of undocumented immigrants since 9/11 view it as a response to the continuing pressures of angry, mostly white, citizens. The “anti-immigrant climate” created by civic groups like the Minutemen, politicos…

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  • Pushed to the Altar

    The Right-Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion

    After the 2000 presidential campaign, I felt a shock of recognition when I read that the George W. Bush Administration planned to use its “faith-based” funding to support organizations to encourage women, especially welfare recipients, to marry. The…

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  • The North American Union Right-Wing Populist Conspiracism Rebounds

    The same right-wing populist fears of a collectivist one-world government and new world order that fueled Cold War anticommunism, mobilized opposition to the Civil Rights Movement, and spawned the armed citizens militia movement in the 1990s, have…

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  • Judicial Watch Glories in Victories over Undocumented Workers Commentary

    To enter the world of Tom Fitton, President of the conservative, D.C.-based group, Judicial Watch, you’re going to need to forget the stories you’ve heard about hardworking immigrants being torn from their U.S.-born children and deported to their…

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  • The New Secular Fundamentalist Conspiracy!

    One of the most remarkable, and least remarked upon, features of the contemporary discussion of faith in public life is that a defining feature of the religious right worldview has filtered deeply into mainstream and even progressive thought. This…

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  • When Uncle Sam Plays Cupid

    Romance and marriage proposals are in the air on Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, cupid isn’t the only matchmaker hard at work this season. An increasing number of low-income women find themselves pushed to the altar – not by their relations or…

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  • When "Uncle Sam" Plays Cupid, He Pushes Marriage as Poverty Fighter Over Proven Programs, New Report Shows

    BOSTON – This Valentine’s Day, an increasing number of low-income women find themselves pushed to the altar – not by their relations or suitors, but by the federal government. A new report by the think tank Political Research Associates and the…

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  • New Report Shows Bush Administration Promotes Marriage, Rather than Proven Anti-Poverty Programs, to Raise Low-Income Families Out of Poverty

    BOSTON – A new report by the think tank Political Research Associates and the Women of Color Resource Center charges the George W. Bush Administration with politicizing and weakening federal anti-poverty polices by promoting conservative family…

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