Chip Berlet, former senior analyst at Political Research Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts, a left-leaning think tank, and co-author of “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,”…
“I think it’s shrewd on the part of Brigitte Gabriel (founder of ACT for America) to point to the extreme views on women that the more conservative elements of Islam hold,” says Fred Clarkson, a…
ADF has been extremely active in pushing for so-called “religious liberty” laws around the country that allow Christians to discriminate against LGBT people. ADF also has supported the criminalization…
The NPR/PBS poll results on freedom of religion actually illustrate the broader pattern of how American conservatives work around the basic liberal thrust of the Constitution. As mainstream acceptance…
The Three Percenters are described by Political Research Associates as “a paramilitary group that pledges armed resistance against attempts to restrict private gun ownership”. They were a highly…
As many participants noted, citing research by Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian researcher and Anglican Priest, the U.S. religious right has provided significant funding on the continent to promote homophobia…
“I went to an Ethiopian restaurant in Bushwick on Monday and had to pull a neo-Nazi sticker off the wall,” Spencer Sunshine told Metro. “I never would have seen one two years ago.” Because such…
In the second hour “God’s on Whose Side?” with Frederick Clarkson, Senior Fellow, at Political Research Associates and author of “Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy”…
In the US, the progressive think tank Political Research Associates has been tracking groups like the WCF for years. It calls the “pro-family” rhetoric “deceptive” and part of a campaign that has…
