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Right-wing leaders often appropriate progressive themes by calling for rule by “the people,” equal opportunity, and “equality” feminism. Their rhetoric has convinced many voters that the Right offers a more fair and direct form of democratic representation than that offered by liberals and progressives. But an accurate analysis of the Right’s agenda reveals that, while it embraces the rhetoric of democracy, it promotes a constricted, shrunken version of democracy.

This week, we are likely to see one of the most historic and dramatic shifts in the U.S. government’s policy on nutrition and nutritional supplements—and none of it for the better. Conservatives in the House of Representatives are set to vote to cut an estimated $40 billion nutritional supplement programs such as food stamps.

The Supreme Court ended Roe v. Wade . When the court finally got around to issuing the reprehensible 5-4 shadow docket decision on Texas’s bounty-hunting, 2-week abortion ban, which had already gone…

The Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to healthcare, and effectively overturned Roe v Wade , by doing nothing. Using the shadow docket, Justice Alito allowed a draconian, dystopian…

Read more of John Stoehr’s posts from The Editorial Board — eds. The Editorial Board’s Mia Brett has been raising awareness of a new Texas law that, in effect, creates a market for abortion…

The New Apostolic Reformation is a Christian Right movement that is different from previous evangelical movements. It is rapidly gaining influence in the United States and around the globe, and it aims to advance a right-wing social and economic agenda.

The Religious Right’s most cherished and durable myth is its myth of origins. According to this well-rehearsed narrative, articulated by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and countless others, evangelical…

The Religious Right is experiencing another, devastating Covid surge, especially in Southern states with Republican governors. Meanwhile, conservative state legislators are furiously passing laws…

In the November 2012 elections, voters in the four states where marriage equality was on the ballot all voted either to legalize marriage equality or overturn bans on same-sex marriage. For the first time in American history, a majority of Americans have indicated that they support same-sex marriage, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Prop. 8 further suggest that the opposition to marriage equality may be a losing battle. Yet a new article by PRA Senior Fellow Frederick Clarkson asserts that these recent gains have not led the Christian Right to retreat from this issue.