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Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.

Nixon asked people to pray for him and ended with “God bless America” to remind the nation that he was religious and therefore moral, and thus either innocent or deserving of forgiveness. Trump is doing the same with his gaggle of evangelical bootlickers.

Whether it’s the mysteries of technology or the inscrutable malice of the people around us, Evil explores the individual’s sense of powerlessness and the possibility that even an institution as flawed and problematic as the Catholic Church might offer within it the seeds of hope.

While 2011 was a frustrating year for the anti-LGBT Right, they haven’t given up.

What’s the scorecard on the Michigan Operational Integration Center’s ability to combine information from different sources when the threat is not terrorism but environmental disaster?

After a group of midshipmen at the Naval Academy sent an email about the upcoming Satanic Services that would be offered, the Academy quickly shut it down claiming that the email wasn’t properly approved.

According to Slate, Department of Homeland Security has doled out more than $300 million since 9/11 to at least eight prestigious U.S. universities to support “centers of excellence” including the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), and the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER). Since 9/11, more than 200 colleges have created homeland-security degree and certificate programs. According to Slate, another 144 have added emergency management programs “with a terrorism bent” focused on narrow topics like “the psyche of terrorists.”

What are the impacts of Muslim community resistance in a post-9/11 world?

The new Fusion Center in Michigan coordinated the national security intelligence efforts for law enforcement departments, threatening marginalized communities.

Either sincere religious conviction should be a defense, or it shouldn’t. There should be a healthy debate about religious exemptions in a pluralistic society, but not about the content of the religious conviction concerned.