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Since PRA’s 2016 report on Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute has taken on public sector unions not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country.

The contemporary anti-immigrant movement, which has established influence at various levels of the administration, has promoted and attempted to litigate changing the census to reveal citizenship status for nearly 40 years.

I hate to say “told you so,” but the opportunity comes along so infrequently I feel obliged to take it when I can. The plan among U.S. Catholic bishops to bludgeon Pres. Biden with a statement on the…

Equality Ride, a project of Soulforce Q, tries to change the mindset of evangelical youth, but are they successful?

Have you heard rumors about a cult called The Disciples of the Ram? Ever hear of Katie Lincoln, the young girl from Danvers, Massachusetts, who was stabbed 22 times by her friend in a Satanic slaying…

Saturday, shoppers nationwide were asked to stand up for Hobby Lobby, a chain of over 500 stores that faces debilitating fines under the Affordable Health Care Act for refusing to cover contraception in its insurance plans. Much like last August’s Chick-fil-a Appreciation Day, created by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to support its “Godly values” and opposition to same-sex marriage, supporters were asked to head for the cash register in honor of Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day.

Yesterday, I and about 40 others crammed into the Springfield, MA, office of Arise for Social Justice, fresh from the first oral hearing of the lawsuit brought by Ugandan gay rights activists against Scott Lively–the notorious holocaust revisionist who, as PRA broke in 2009, traveled to Uganda to promote the virulent homophobia that lead to the “kill the gays” bill.

“I love the wharf, listening to jazz at Westminster Church, and playing basketball with other guys. I’m a transgender man and I’m part of DC.” If you’ve bussed around our nation’s capital in the past year, you may have seen this ad (left) displaying a D.C. transgender resident, Iden Campbell McCollum.

The Christian and business Right has been steadily building political, policy and legislative capacity in the states since the 1980s.

Is religion good for you, full stop? Many Americans think so—and perhaps that’s unsurprising in a country where most people struggle to survive, while a wide variety of gurus, hucksters, and…