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“Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in…

In a briefing conducted on January 6th, panelists discussed the longer trajectory of ongoing insurrection and what we must be doing in this moment to protect our democracy.

In the course of his remarks to the Family Research Council’s “ Pray Vote Stand Summit ” on September 14, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler drew familiar lines on some hot…

In 1302, the island of Arwad, off the coast of Syria, fell to Mamluk forces. The Templar garrison died in the assault. The Templar had lost their last stronghold in the Holy Land, and while the other…

Shane Burley reviews James Ridgeway’s updated and re-released book Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture.

They care for trans children and teenagers—and they’re getting death threats. On August 30th, Boston Children’s Hospital was shut down due to a bomb threat , and shut down a second time on September…

Several PRA staff attended this year’s Pray Vote Stand Summit, sending twice-daily (anonymous) dispatches from the nation’s most influential Christian Right political conference (once known as the…

If you’ve been educated in North America or Western Europe, you might be forgiven for having never heard of the Battle of Kulikovo, a battle between Russian forces and the Golden Horde, on September 8…

In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. After giving our eighth-grade class a basic civics lesson, he opened the floor to Q…

When I was in yeshiva in Boro Park in the early 80s, I was asked by my Rosh Yeshiva, a Satmar Hasid, to go to Downtown Brooklyn to sign a few documents for state funds for the yeshiva. When I got…