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This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In June 2024, a…

“Twenty years ago I thought now would be better. And it’s not.” That’s how Tiffany Vasquez, a longtime resident of Roseville, California, feels after weeks of vicious right-wing attacks on the local…

Popular theology routinely enables powerful men to rehabilitate their public image after their misconduct goes public. This pattern applies especially to men known for their dedication to Jesus. The…

“How do we get people to view the CCCU as an extremist organization, the same way they view ADF?” It’s a great question that Paul Southwick, a gay attorney and the director of the Religious Exemption…

I’m looking at a photograph of myself at fourteen. I’m a freshman in high school. I’m wearing an oversized Mickey Mouse T-shirt and baggy jeans. Back then I chose comfort over style. I’m smiling…

The following is an excerpt from Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels (The University of California Press, 2020). Read Peter Laarman’s review of the book here. One of the key…

Let’s cut right to the paper chase, as it were. Amy Coney Barrett’s faith is potentially problematic, and ought to be subject to the same kind of critique as any other belief, sacred or secular…

Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it should surprise no one to learn that his administration is going out of its way to restrict civil rights, rather than expand them. Nevertheless, a brief…

When he walks across the stage to receive his diploma on Saturday, 17-year-old Wisconsin high school senior Ashton Whitaker will do so knowing that his name will go down in history connected to a…

While Chase Strangio, the ACLU attorney who serves as lead counsel on trans high school student Gavin Grimm’s case, is understandably disappointed with the latest development, he stressed that Grimm…