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Last week, Representative Ilhan Omar asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken a straightforward question. It was prompted by recent cases brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging war…

In recent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates , popular Bible teacher Beth Moore , and Ethics…

Journalist Steven Greenhut of the Pacific Research Institute set off the current debate over public-sector unions with his 2009 book Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation, in which he labeled public employees a new elite and accused them of exploiting taxpayers for cushy benefits.

Misericordia. The word washes across the congregation at the tiny church, carried by voices singing in Spanish. Mercy.

On Friday, July 22, at least 76 people were killed in the Oslo bombing and the shooting rampage at a Labor Party summer training camp for young liberal political activists. Immediately following news of the Norway terrorism, the internet buzzed with speculation — much focused on so-called “Islamist” militancy and Muslims. It soon became apparent, however, that the terrorist was a homegrown Christian Right Islamophobe. Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian man who has confessed to the attacks, appears to have carried out the carnage as a “marketing” tool to advertise his manifesto calling for a white Christian revolution that would rid Europe of Muslims.

Post-9/11 congressional mandates for better interagency information sharing have often been taken in a direction that undermines community safety and threatens personal privacy. According to new government records released to the public on July 6, 2011, the FBI is using its clout to cajole state and local law enforcement agencies into participating in the Secure Communities program (S-Comm) of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Under S-Comm, law enforcement agencies share sensitive data, collected for the purpose of stopping crime, with other agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security.

The departure of Russell Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention has been a long time coming. As I noted here on RD last March, since the completion of the right-wing coup known in SBC circles as…

This Saturday, June 12 th , MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will host a rally aimed at supporting the Big Lie that the 2020 election was illegally stolen through widespread coordinated fraud. For over seven…

The following piece has been updated with an adendum titled: Is a Fixation on Race Betraying the Class Struggle? Scroll down to go directly to the update. - eds In her otherwise terrific cri de coeur…

Effectively fighting mobilizations like those emboldened by Trump’s election requires accurately understanding their composition—one in which misogyny thrives alongside, and intertwined with, racism.