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In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing

By Shaul Magid

…Thus, a true irony emerges: despite the threat to democracy that these new policies represent, this shift of focus from ending the Occupation is the true death of Israeli democracy as it’s essentially normalizing apartheid while claiming it’s not apartheid at all. In some bizarre way, these protests challenge the Right even as they benefit the Right. There are many on the Right who are sympathetic to the protests, despite having voted for the part…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…[38] Nicole Ogrysko, “Biden repeals Schedule F, overturns Trump workforce policies with new executive order,” Federal News Network, January 22, 2021, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2021/01/biden-to-repeal-schedule-f-overturn-trump-workforce-policies-with-new-executive-order/. [39] Jonathan Swan, “A radical plan for Trump’s second term,” Axios, July 22, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term. [40] The…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…African queer/LGBTIA+ individuals and communities. Discriminatory laws and policies remain stubbornly in place in almost all countries, and the hostile public perceptions of queer/LGBTIA+ identities that sustain these laws and policies seem as pervasive as ever, and are increasingly vitriolic in many places. At the same time, stories of heartache, frustration, ennui, and burnout are rife within the activist community, while competition and antagon…

Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues

By Elijah Siegler

…ent fear of contagion.” Trump’s most popular policies (and really his only policies) are policies based on fear of contagion, and on maintaining taboos. These policies are equally about vitality: The macrocosm of Trump’s national policies reflects the microcosm of Trump’s body, hinged on the mesocosm of Trump’s supporters: positive energy, flowing in the proper direction, keeping the negative energy out. When a Magician Becomes King Channeling vit…

Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

By Daniel Schultz

…e Christians, are a bad idea. There’s no arguing that the administration’s policies aren’t horrific and racist. They are. It’s understandable that co-religionists of Jeff Sessions would want to distance themselves from those policies; I myself have said I can’t square them with the Christian gospel. Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who’s a “real” Christian and who’s not is something else. The charges laid…

Obama Under Fire From Civil Liberties Groups Over Faith-Based Policies

By Sarah Posner

The Advisory Council to President Barack Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships submitted its recommendations to the administration yesterday, and civil liberties groups are calling for quick implementation of its advice on bolstering constitutional safeguards. The Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD), comprised of 26 religious, civil liberties, and religious freedom organizations, is also demanding action from t…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…as actually not about domestic policies but was actually focused on global policies, trade, and war. No really. I counted. Domestic policies and questions that affect “everyday life” and the “average citizen” were overshadowed by talk of China, Russia, Venezuela, Mexico, Israel, Iran, Germany, Ukraine, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Yemen, and those faceless “migrants” coming from countries where, according to Trump, violence is actually down (due,…

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

By Elisha Chi

…ous lands in the late 15th century. And, it should be noted, “assimilation policies” is something of a euphemism given that these policies included the proliferation of Catholic missions and the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families in order to “civilize” them in federal boarding or residential schools. (It’s helpful to note that family separation as a recent tactic of immigration deterrence is a practice which one Archbishop i…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…l.” Ironically, a strong case can be made that the right-wing militaristic policies he may feel forced to defend actually harm Israel’s legitimate long-term security interests. A Political Necessity? If indeed Obama took these hard-line positions during his AIPAC speech in order to seem more electable, it may be a serious mistake. Most liberal Democrats who gave blind support to the Israeli government in the 1960s and 1970s now have a far more eve…

Faith-Based Anniversary: Has Anything Changed?

By Sarah Posner

…said: While the current administration inherited deeply flawed faith-based policies from the Bush administration, it is very troubling that a year later, those policies are still in effect. Not even one word of the Bush-era faith-based initiative has changed. The current White House also created an often secretive government advisory committee that includes clergy who have a clear financial stake in the continuation of Bush-era policies. It’s time…