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The Christian Right is using its anti-homosexuality tactics to push back against laws ensuring rights for the trans community. Find out who the three key groups leading the attack are, and their playbook for repressing LGBTQ rights.

In 2004, the Right deployed state ballot initiatives opposing gay marriage to pull out socially conservative voters on Election Day. While this tactic apparently only enjoyed success in the key state of Ohio, it nonetheless helped frame the national election, provided right-wing candidates with a distinct message, and primed voters to support candidates who supported the marriage bans.

The Christian Right has been operating on multiple fronts to limit the scope of the advance of marriage equality, including seeking to enable business owners, civil workers, and elected officials to openly discriminate against LGBTQ couples.

The growth of immigration enforcement further north has led many within the immigrant and refugee communities to feel that they, too, live on the border.

Since the United Nations held the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in September 1995, women’s rights and human rights groups in the US and throughout the world have worked to “bring the Beijing platform home.”

The genocidal practices undertaken during the formation of the U.S. are well documented and fairly well known, as are some of those implemented in the 19th and early 20th centuries. More contemporary iterations of the U.S. genocidal project are less so.

Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013) is Conner’s memoir about growing up in Chicago as the daughter of two of the organization’s earliest and most dedicated members.

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.

Loretta J. Williams reviews Holly Sklar’s book, “Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics”

The ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency has dramatically worsened an already grave set of challenges confronting justice-minded people, and has presented the women’s movement in the United States…