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The response to Piketty from liberal audiences indicates a longing to bring economic questions into political debate in ways that reflect their centrality to our lives.

Readers will know that we at Religion Dispatches hold no special brief for faith or no faith, or any particular brand of religion. We have invested many years and much of ourselves, dear God so much…

When NAFTA was passed two decades ago, its boosters promised it would bring “First World” status for the Mexican people. Instead, it prompted a great migration north.

Despite subsequent backtracking, the Catholic world is abuzz with news that the Synod of Bishops could be taking steps toward a dramatic overhaul in the church’s long-standing doctrine on LGBTQ people, as well as its view on divorced members.

It’s true. Religious liberty is under sustained attack in America—but not in the way the Christian Right would have us believe.

Neoliberal policies that result in institutional closures carry a cost, too. Could communities seize the moment to redirect resources toward self-determination and liberation?

As White supremacists shifted tactics in response to mass social movements, they needed a mass electoral base. Neoliberals helped build it for them—and colorblindness helped wipe out some inconvenient historical truths.

there is a spate of fascist organizing among the Ukrainian, Greek, and Polish communities. A string of violent acts by fascists against their opponents has been the result.

Go to the grocery store to buy vanilla extract and you’ll be faced with an ontological choice: natural or artificial? The real stuff—expensive “pure vanilla extract”—is made from the beans of a…

While The New Right used democratic processes to further a reactionary agenda, neoliberalism engaged in opposing democratic goals.