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Religion Dispatches

Landor in Babylon — How a Rastafari's Case against Prison Injustice Could Be Used to Weaponize 'Religious Liberty'

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety , a case brought by Damon Landor after officers at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center…
Christian Pattavina
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Public Eye

Burning Down the House

What’s Behind the U.S. Antidemocratic Reaction?
Katherine Stewart traces the rise of the antidemocratic movement fueling Trumpism and the authoritarian Right in this adapted excerpt from her book Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.
Katherine Stewart
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Gender & Authoritarianism

Political Research Associates
PRA uses the term gender & authoritarianism to describe the ways that certain cis-heteronormative, male-supremacist, and misogynist “values” are used to maintain authoritarian control over people of…
Collage of protestors holding signs in favor of abortion.
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Corporate & Economic Right

Political Research Associates
PRA has long followed the ideologies advocated by the Economic Right. The claim to individual liberties is often used to justify economic models like free markets, limited government, and…
A woman sits next to four men in suits laughing together at a White House discussion
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Global Right

Political Research Associates
PRA tracks the influence of the Right within the U.S. and globally in order to understand the exchange of ideologies that threaten human rights. What is often referred to as the Global Right can often…
Proud Boys at a Rally in Portland, with one member wearing a shirt that read PINOCHET DID NOTHING WRONG
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Resistance Strategies

Political Research Associates
As a social justice research center, PRA is devoted to researching and documenting the strategies and tactics of the Far Right for organizers, movement organizations, journalists, scholars, and the…
Two femme-bodied people walking through a park in front of some graffiti. Berlin-Friedrichshain, Warschauer Straße. Toilettenhäuschen auf dem Parkgelände Warschauer Straße Ecke Mühlenstraße, mit aufgesprühter, roter Aufschrift „Frauen in den Wiederstand heraus zum 8. März“. (Berlin-Friedrichshain, Warschauer Straße. Toilet block in the park at the corner of Warschauer Straße and Mühlenstraße, with the spray-painted red inscription "Women in the resistance, out on March 8th.")
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Religion Dispatches

Terminally Online Trump Administration Uses Social Media to Frame Its Anti-Immigrant Agenda as ‘Holy War'

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

Allegations of Sexual Abuse Emerge at Influential Bethel Church

The moral failure is systemic
Heartbreaking allegations of sexual abuse at Bethel Church , a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California, has recently come to light. Bob Hartley, previously one of the core “prophets” at the…
Keri Ladner
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Bob Hartley looks at the camera mournfully.
Religion Dispatches

Why the Christian Right Wants to Destroy the Department of Education

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration…
Talia Lavin
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Religion Dispatches

Donald Trump's Violent Mentality is Quite Literally Biblical

From genocide to sexual violence, it's in there.
One could be forgiven for coming away from Leighton Woodhouse’s “Donald Trump, Pagan King” op-ed in the New York Times with the nagging suspicion that he hasn’t actually read the biblical or ‘Pagan’…
Stephen Young
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