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Religion Dispatches

The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to 'Cancel' — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

Earlier this month, amid increasing death threats, the synagogue of the judge who signed the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search warrant was forced to cancel its Shabbat service . And this is hardly an isolated…
Elad Nehorai
Article
Public Eye

"We Have To Push the Envelope”

A Year After Storming the Capitol, White Nationalist “Groypers” Storm the Right
Nick Fuentes and the America First movement move further into Big Tent Conservatism and the cultural mainstream, without diluting the movement’s explicit White nationalist and antisemitic core.
Ben Lorber
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A young white man, Nick Fuentes, in a suit
Religion Dispatches

Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!

What with Ukraine , Mar-a-Lago , Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!) if we didn’t pay a lot of attention to the gnashing of teeth over President Biden’s long-delayed…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on the religious and political Right for decades. This has been particularly so among leaders of the Christian…
Frederick Clarkson
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Political Research Associates

Blue Lives Matter and the U.S. Counter-Subversive Tradition

A Q&A with authors Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall
Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall talk to PRA about the historical origins of today’s Blue Lives Matter movement and its deep roots in structural systems of power.
Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann
Cloee Cooper
Q&A
A sheriff pointing a gun at a car.
Religion Dispatches

The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring 'In God We Trust' Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection

A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by displaying signs that declare “ In God We Trust ” in every public school classroom has come under scrutiny…
Andrew L. Seidel
Article
Religion Dispatches

In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches

How many local churches are providing direct electoral support to far-right-wing Christian candidates for political office? How many of these churches have members who participated in the January 6…
Chrissy Stroop
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The Public Eye, Fall 2023/Winter 2024

Public Eye
After a brief hiatus, The Public Eye is back with a new issue.With the theme, “Democracy Under Attack—And How We Fight Back,” this Fall 2023/Winter 2024 double issue of The Public Eye examines antidem
a group of people sitting around, mending a quilt that reads "democracy is alive."
Magazine
Religion Dispatches

However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People

Jana Reiss, a senior columnist for Religion News Service, recently surveyed a number of recent television programs that “ present Mormonism in an unflattering light .” The column’s headline claims…
Megan Goodwin
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Religion Dispatches

What Salman Rushdie's Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt

Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he was at UC-Santa Barbara to give a talk. I asked him why he didn’t have any security guards around him. “I have to live my…
Mark Juergensmeyer
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