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Gordon Haber

Political Research Associates
Gordon Haber writes about religion and culture. He does not live in Brooklyn.
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Religion Dispatches

Atheist Richard Dawkins Swings to Anti-Trans Right in Grasp at Broader Intellectual Relevance

Yesterday, Richard Dawkins tweeted a request to his followers, asking them to sign on to a declaration by UK-based anti-transgender advocacy group the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC). Best known…
Heron Greenesmith
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Lucas McCracken

Political Research Associates
Lucas McCracken is a Humanities and Social Change postdoctoral fellow in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, studying the modern secular legacy of ancient Christian ideas…
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Religion Dispatches

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take over Woodland Park.” Thus spake theocratic leader Andrew Wommack at a political mobilization conference in April at the Charis…
Frederick Clarkson
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Religion Dispatches

What 'Faith Groups Do X' Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

Along with freedom of religion, freedom of the press stands as one of the five fundamental freedoms in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. But what is the free press, as an institution…
Chrissy Stroop
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Religion Dispatches

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

Like clockwork, my social media accounts are slowly being populated with posts about the true origins of Thanksgiving or the need to declare the fourth Thursday in November a day of mourning in…
A. E. Brooks-Key
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Religion Dispatches

'We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis': A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.

“January 6 helped argue the case for fascist tendencies in Christian Nationalism,” Annika Brockschmidt tells me. As someone who spends his time on the front lines battling Christian Nationalism and…
Andrew L. Seidel
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Political Research Associates

Mission to Destroy Public Education Rebrands Under COVID-19

Understanding the Christian Homeschooling Movement
While homeschooling can be done responsibly, for decades the Christian Right has successfully used it as a vehicle to radicalize parents and children alike.
Chrissy Stroop
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Political Research Associates

Under the Cover of COVID

Resisting Disaster Authoritarianism, Building Multiracial Feminist Democracy
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the inadequacy of our public health and emergency response infrastructure and the disturbing truth that we are experiencing failure by design.
Tarso Luís Ramos
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President Trump Giving an Update at the White House on the Coronavirus Response
Political Research Associates

COVID-19 and Authoritarian Crisis Management in Hungary

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Hungary’s parliament passed a law allowing the nationalist government to rule by decree, a continuation of the country’s decade-long slide into authoritarianism.
Kristóf Szombati
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Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary