A baffling sentence opened the Thursday testimony of Julia Beck, an anti-trans conservative speaking at the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on the…
African religious leaders have notably been courted and lobbied by US conservatives. According to a 2009 report from the progressive think tank Political Research Associates, “US conservatives have…
The researcher Spencer Sunshine wrote in a report for Political Research Associates that ideas of county supremacy in the Pacific north-west had been “mainstreamed into local and state governments…
On February 7 I again highlighted the harsh realities faced by queer students at evangelical schools, the work of activists seeking to improve conditions, and the array of forces lined up against them…
“The Proud Boys have had a dramatic reversal of fortune since the summer,” said Spencer Sunshine, associate fellow at Political Research Associates, who researches far-right movements. “I think the…
And on a scale of 100, the popularity of “alt-right” as a search term fell by more than half between January 2018 and January 2019, according to Google Trends. AltRight.com, founded by Spencer in 2010…
Some progressives criticized the alliance between TERFs and right-wingers as an unholy one. “They are capitalizing on a scarcity mind-set rhetoric … saying there aren’t enough rights to go around, and…
Heron Greenesmith, a researcher at the liberal think tank Political Research Associates, said this latest iteration of cooperation between conservatives and radical feminists (sometimes referred to as…
Despite many white supremacist movements’ use of obfuscating language, it’s still glaringly obvious to many journalists what kind of rhetoric they stand for. The vast majority of local media outlets…
In the midst of the longest, most destructive government shutdown in history, with a maelstrom of treason-adjacent scandals swirling around the White House and Democrats finally in a position to do…
