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Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus
This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind ...
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On Tenth Anniversary Obergefell Ruling, Christian Right Still Waging War on Marriage Equality Though Likely to Lose This Battle
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex ...
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Bad Muslim, Good Candidate? Mamdani’s Campaign Disrupts ‘Electability’ of Islamophobia
Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the ...
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On the 'Violent-Prayer-a-Day' Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats - Religion Dispatches
Above is a photograph I took in March 2024 of the lobby of Christ for the Nations Institute, a Bible college in Dallas that the Minnesota political murders suspect, Vance Boelter, appears online to ...
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The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
Pronatalism has become a pet project for a certain subset of the Right. Indeed, the ideology dovetails nicely with longstanding Republican priorities like banning abortion and limiting access to birth ...
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“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life - Religion Dispatches
It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her work, ...
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Silence of the Nuns — Oscar Darling ‘Conclave’ Contains Subtle Indictment of Catholic Church’s Views on Women - Religion Dispatches
There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from the glimpses behind the doors of the uber-secretive papal conclave itself ...
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The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think - Religion Dispatches
If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with ...
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While Nixon Sought to Secretly 'Screw' Political Enemies Trump's Dictatorial Desires Are Less Modest - Religion Dispatches
On August 16, 1971, White House Counsel John Dean circulated a confidential memo to Nixon loyalists titled "Dealing with our Political Enemies" which proposed a plan for the administration to best ...
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The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right - Religion Dispatches
The ADL over the past year has been ringing the warning bell about Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going as far as demanding police disrupt the protest ...
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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews - Religion Dispatches
On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use ...