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Between a Secular Rock and a Fundamentalist Hard Place

The Aftermath of Scandal at Liberty University

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I sometimes joke that Liberty University and I grew up together. My childhood home was about a mile from campus. While Liberty was getting on its feet, so was I. I started kindergarten at a Baptist school and stayed through 9^th grade. I…

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This Year and Next in Anti-LGBT Advocacy

Watch Now: A briefing from PRA

Even as we reel from one of the most deadly and destructive years in recent memory for anti-LGBT advocacy, we must start preparing for the next. On December 9, PRA hosted an invaluable conversation about the past year and what we expect to see in…

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Dispelling Illusions and Overlooking Continuities

A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror

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Reading Spencer Ackerman’s new book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Penguin Random House, 2021) is a…

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Sentimentalizing Resentment

How Taylor Caldwell Set the Mood for the Far Right

Three books overlapping each other: Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings, Taylor Caldwell's Dynasty of Death, and Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings

If you were a middle-class White mom in 1976 with copies of lifestyle magazines piled in the corner of a green shag-carpeted room designed by a Dorothy Draper protégé, you probably also had a few thick Taylor Caldwell novels tucked in the bookshelf…

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Anti-Sex Work Feminism and the Lived Reality of Criminalization and State Violence

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Anti-Sex Work Feminists have a (deadly) listening problem: a problem listening to the people whose lives and livelihoods have been made economically and socially precarious by the state and made subject to daily violence by its carceral arm. In this…

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White Skin, Black Fuel

Author Q&A with Andreas Malm

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From “heat domes” to super-hurricanes, the signs of an accelerating climate crisis are all around us. Yet at the same time there’s been a parallel, global surge in far-right forces, many of which flatly deny the very existence of climate change, and…

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Exodus or Transformation

Christian Homeschooling and R.J. Rushdoony’s Legacy in the Age of COVID

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On a March 2021 episode of the popular Christian radio show and podcast Stand in the Gap Today, a former Pennsylvania legislator exhorted Christian parents to “leave Egypt behind” and seek out the “Promised Land.”^[1]…

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Sowing the Seeds of White Supremacy Through Education

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School board meetings across the country have seen an influx of parents and community members over the last few months, many there to fight Critical Race Theory (CRT)—something that the majority of primary and secondary schools don’t teach, and a…

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Far-Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

The inhumane treatment and deportations of Haitian refugees from our southern border underscores what we already suspected: that the U.S. anti-immigration movement, which thrived under President Trump, has yet another champion in President Biden and…

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Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11

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Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S.…

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More of the Same, but More of It

The Conspiratorial Legacy of 9/11

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One of the lasting legacies of 9/11 is the growth and mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, across the U.S. and the world. Within hours of the attacks, theories cropped up online to identify culprits, explain their motives, and uncover their…

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A Wider Type of Freedom

Author Q&A with Daniel Martinez HoSang

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In the last year, a record number of people took to the streets in protest of systemic racism and police violence. But over the same time period,…

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21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement

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More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

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What If 9/11 Had Never Taken Place?

No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.

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On this 20^th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the attacks and their political aftermath have receded into the distance: an important historical event at the start of the 2000s, long before Obama, the Tea Party, Trump, and the pandemic.…

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Subverting State Violence

A PRA Webinar Series

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Save the Date From the Rise of the New Right to Trump’s America: Forty Years of Right-Wing State Infiltration and Left Resistance Date/Time TBA Previous Webinars in the Series…

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The Politics of Belonging

Refugees, Islam, and Germany’s Far Right

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This April, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson elevated a narrative that has long festered on the Far Right to the conservative mainstream, when he used his show to promote the conspiratorial “Great Replacement” theory. That’s the idea that the so-called “…

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“Hitler Youth, Without the Hitler”

At Gen-Z Camping Retreat 76Fest, Conservative Influencers Network with White Nationalists

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On August 20, 2021, a network of paleoconservative and White nationalist youth activists will gather at F.D. Roosevelt State Park outside of Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend camping retreat called 76Fest. Arielle Early, an 18-year-old White…

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Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

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At first glance, Sarah (not her real name) is your average, social-media-savvy, Generation Z girl.^[1] Her Instagram account is typical of a “Zoomer” feminine aesthetic: inspired by the alternative, colorful style of…

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Mobilizing for Reproductive Freedom in the Battle Over Bodily Sovereignty

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Under the perceived threat of a Democratic administration stymieing the war of attrition against reproductive rights, the anti-abortion movement continues to strategize for a post-Roe future. From the growth of the abortion abolitionist movement to…

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‘The Forgotten Gamers of America’

New Gen-Z Influencers Continue to Push White Nationalism for a Post-Trump Era

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On Monday, July 19, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, as the Student Action Summit of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) drew…

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