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    • White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
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    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
      Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
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Annika Brockschmidt

Annika Brockschmidt is a freelance journalist, author, and podcast-producer who currently writes for the Tagesspiegel, ZEIT Online and elsewhere. Her second non-fiction book America's Holy Warriors: How the Religious Right endangers Democracy was published in German in October 2021 and was an immediate bestseller. She co-hosts the podcast "Kreuz und Flagge" ("Cross and Flag") with visiting professor at Georgetown University, Thomas Zimmer, which explores the history of the Religious Right.

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Archive, Authoritarianism, Politics/LawMay 13, 2025

Germany classifies ‘right-wing extremist’ AfD as a danger to democracy — and high-ranking Trump officials jump to defend it

By Annika Brockschmidt

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal…

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Archive, Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, Immigration, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/Gender, Trump arrestMay 1, 2025

EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

While too many American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are (finally)…

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Steve Bannon giving the infamous Nazi salute to a receptive crowd at CPAC 2025
Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, OMFG, Politics/Law, Russia Invades UkraineFebruary 28, 2025

Exalted Insurrectionists, Kremlin-Friendly Bombast, and a Smattering of Nazi Salutes — Notes from CPAC 2025

By Annika Brockschmidt

Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism…

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Archive, Election 2024, Politics/LawJuly 8, 2024

The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

During a 1977 series of interviews (for which he was paid handsomely), Richard Nixon, responding…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawJune 3, 2024

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

When Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was convicted on 34 felony counts…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, OMFG, Politics/LawMay 23, 2024

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

Some things regarding the Supreme Court are not surprising. For example: Supreme Court Justice Samuel…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeMay 22, 2024

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

Donald Trump has shown the public many times who he is and in whose political…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawMay 9, 2024

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

In these fraught times, there remains one golden rule of politics that both sides of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 5, 2024

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeJanuary 31, 2024

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

“This is what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” Despite the bitter…

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