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The Department of Justice has quietly released the final report on a two-year pilot program on “Suspicious Activity Reporting.” This program, the latest product of the domestic security overhaul following September 11, 2001 is cause for alarm, according to a recently published study Platform for Prejudice, by Political Research Associates (PRA).

In February of the year 2000, in South St. Louis, Missouri, the 300-member Redeemer Evangelical United Church of Christ got a new pastor. His name was George Dohm. Soon after he arrived, he told select members whom he called his “disciples” that within five years he’d be able to take the church out of the denomination, which he considered degenerate for failing to embrace the inerrancy of the Bible or to attack gays.

The New York Giants’ hiring of former player David Tyree as the director of player development has resulted in controversy and a statement from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

It was a scant five weeks until the 2006 midterm elections, and photogenic Christian Right leader Tony Perkins gripped the podium and smiled confidently at the 1700 activists gathered at the Values Voters Summit. Perkins predicted that his new coalition of Christian Right stalwarts would tip the scales for the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. He was, of course, wrong.

For those on either side of the abortion debate there are great stakes involved with the outcomes of the upcoming 2004 elections.

The Right is using new media tactics to challenge Planned Parenthood, paying lip service to progressive values but restricting reproductive rights.

Homay King compares two books’ approaches to race relations and population history.

NOM’s mission is to defeat same-sex marriage at the polls, in the legislature, and in the courts, from state to state and across the country.

The generous and successful programs of the New Deal weren’t pushed through via the lobbying of savvy, connected and nominally liberal religious advocates, they were underwritten by the “moralistic, idealistic and politically naive” movement known as the Social Gospel.

I met Barry Silverman at a gathering of the Rockland County Tea Party/Coffee Party at the New City Public Library, about twenty miles north of New York City, in January 2011.