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Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…n extraordinary modern achievement. And it’s uniquely universal: people in New Guinea set their watches by the same standard as people in New Mexico. Ideological enemies find common ground; the United States and North Korea might not agree on much, but we both set our clocks by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Systems this total have a strange knack for becoming invisible. Here’s the anthropologist David Graeber, talking about the capitalist market, but…

Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

By Sarah Posner

…eportedly, an aide to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a supporter of the bill, knew about the anti-abortion provision the Republicans added, but failed to inform her boss. The provision, purportedly just a routine reiteration of the Hyde Amendment in the anti-trafficking bill, addresses religious objections elliptically–and not very persuasively. The Hyde Amendment, after all, is designed to block the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions for poor wo…

Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

By Joanna Brooks

…hat Jon Huntsman has once again reorganized his campaign, with the biggest news being his moving headquarters north to New Hampshire, where he’s currently drawing about 10% in the polls. In national polls, however, Huntsman hovers between 1 – 2%, raising some questions as to whether the Nirvana-quoting alt-Republican candidate will be allowed to participate in the October 18 debate. Huntsman’s headquarters had previously been located in Orlando, F…

Newt Gingrich, New Catholic, Presidential Hopeful

By Joanna Brooks

…ial conservatives will forget their deep-seated anti-Papistry and love his new Jesus credentials. 3. Newt Gingrich is hoping the Latino base will forget the Republican’s deep-seated anti-immigrant politics and love his new Jesus credentials. 4. Mrs. Gringrich the third (the former Callista Bisek, who we are trying not to notice met her husband by having an affair with him during his second marriage) has serious Catholic cred as well as serious f…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…s too much. The power of this trope played out in 1996, when a reporter in New York vanished while doing a story on the vampire community. As I describe in the book, she was almost certainly killed by the Russian mafia. There is a certain romance in imagining that she was taken by vampires, but it is irresponsible to promote such a theory. I have encountered several cases of vampires suffering harassment, and this may become worse as awareness of…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…y and craft policies that could undo that historic harm. Predictably, this new policy has unleashed a new wave of anguish. Queer staff and students report feelings of “trauma,” “hurt,” “heartbreak” and “betrayal.” Since this spring, Oneida Chi, a former InterVarsity student leader in the 1990s has counseled close to 40 InterVarsity staff and students who feel traumatized by the new policy. Chi, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ visibility in the churc…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…ts were oppressive when they protected reproductive and gender rights (or “new” rights), whereas, when it came to protecting “traditional” rights to freedom of religion and speech, they were suddenly fundamental. New rights, they argued, cannot supersede traditional human rights. When they do, these rights violations must be redressed. This very argument is being used in the debate over the Obama health care reform law, one of the main objections…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…aeli Arabs and will most likely be taking up a minister’s portfolio in the new Netanyahu government, further emphasizes the survey’s dovish tilt. But an important question to ask is: what does it mean that so many American Jews support Obama’s stance, when that stance, to date, has been best described by observers as “enigmatic”? How well will these numbers hold up if Israel’s “most favored nation” status is truly challenged by an American adminis…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…nine justices currently on the Supreme Court were appointed by these three Republicans. When the New York Times recently reported that it looked like Obama would nominate Indiana’s Judge David F. Hamilton (named to the bench by Bill Clinton in 1994) to a seat on the appeals court in Chicago, the religious right exploded with indignation. While the Times described Hamilton as a “highly regarded federal trial court judge” who, lawyers say, “represen…

Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

…it he highlights the signal role Hughes, his predecessor as archbishop of New York, played in the establishment of the Catholic school system in America. Hughes first “struggled to rid the New York public schools in the 1840s of their anti-Catholic bias,” but then went on to found an independent Catholic school system to preserve the faith of future Catholics. Dolan acknowledges in his article that a number of other Catholic bishops shared this c…