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Why Zubik is Especially Important for Women of Color

By Elizabeth Platt and Kira Shepherd

From the forced breeding of slave women, to the eugenics movement of the 1920s to a relatively recent campaign to sterilize incarcerated women, the institutional denial of women of color’s reproductive freedom has left many mistrustful of medical institutions and the government’s attempts to interfere with their reproductive choices. This has led, in turn, to poor health and political disengagement amongst communities of color. Now, the Supreme C…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…ary into a responsible process of democratization. Who else can summon the numbers adequate to force the military’s hand? And the Islamists, too, might read these lessons in their own way: They can participate in politics, but not really. Or only under strict limits, which others will decide for them. That didn’t work in Algeria, and tens of thousands died in a war that the deep state exploited for its purposes. It only worked in Turkey until the…

C’mon Muslim Myth Believers! Just Admit It!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab. The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim—less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theories. “Y’know what,” I told my guitar teacher. “What?” he asked mid sip of his coffee. “I’d respect those people a lot more if they’d just say they can’t bring themselves to vote for a b…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…we’re a mess. Not only has our happiness been steadily declining since the 1970s, we feel more physical pain than citizens of other nations. Seventy-two percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction our country is going in, and between anxiety disorders, depression, social phobias, OCD and PTSD, millions of Americans navigate every day in a sea of mental illness. On top of this, women in America are alternating between relief at the ou…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…he film tells the important story of how Indian-born Yogananda travelled in 1920 to the United States and established the Self-Realization Fellowship, a yoga organization that has attracted large numbers of disciples from all over the world to this day. The film serves as a reminder that modern yoga has not always been about the stretching and muscle-building postures meant to function as fitness routines that are so often associated with yoga in…

Immigration Reform: A Country Divided, Or a Richer Society?

By Cecilia Menjivar

…e communities in which they settle. Huntington was concerned that as their numbers increased, Mexicans would become more committed to their own ethnic group and would have no incentive to participate fully in US society. He noted that rather than downplaying differences, these communities glorified divisions; he feared that continued Mexican immigration could divide the United States into a country of two languages and two cultures. Welcoming the…

Will Evangelicals Vote for a Non-Christian Trump? If They Don’t, the Vatican May Fall to ISIS

By Hollis Phelps

…But these warnings don’t appear to have dissuaded anyone. Indeed, Trump’s numbers continue to rise among evangelical voters. Pitting support for Trump against a religious ideal ignores the fact that many evangelicals do support Trump and don’t see a conflict in doing so. That’s not because those who support Trump are especially ignorant about their religious beliefs, or somehow hypocritical. Rather, how people understand, practice, and live their…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…e modern ‘Return to Zion,’ Christian religious beliefs have, as far back as 1948, played a significant part in US support for Israel. In the period from 1948 to the mid ’70s, when both the United States and Israel were led by governments with secular democratic agendas, the ‘Cyrus idea’ was present, if somewhat muted. The confluence of the George W. Bush presidency and a rightward shift in the Israeli government meant that visions of the Third Tem…

New Report Raises Questions about Pope Francis’ Response to Sex Abuse Scandal

By Sarah Posner

…ong Catholics who say they attend Mass at least once a week, roughly equal numbers cite “standing up for traditional moral values” (65%) and “addressing the sex abuse scandal” (63%) as top priorities for the new pope. By contrast, among Catholics overall 49% say that standing up for traditional moral values should be “a top priority” for Pope Francis. Roughly four-in-ten Catholics or fewer think that spreading the Catholic faith (39%), addressing…

To Be Atheist, Feminist, and Black

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…an oxymoron and that they live on the “margins” of their communities. The numbers of “out” or publicly self-identified atheists of color are increasing. African American women are a vocal and visible part of this population. In the book I devote a considerable amount of time contrasting the cultural, social, and political concerns of African American atheists/humanists with that of white atheists allied with the New Atheist movement. I argue that…