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Does Donald Trump Have a Catholic Problem?

By Patricia Miller

…Catholic states: Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. To date Trump is holding up well in these states, especially his home state of New York. But a surging Marco Rubio, a Catholic who is now edging into second place in New Hampshire, poses a potential problem to Trump. The first is drawing away Catholic voters who aren’t too enamored of Trump. According to last week’s Pew Poll on the candidates and religion, Trump i…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…y is somewhat similar to Jindal’s. I grew up in small towns in New Jersey, New York, and Ohio before my family settled in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1980s, and I was subjected to the worst types of bullying and racism during my elementary school years. A few choice examples: I was called the ‘n’-word on a daily basis; was threatened with detention if I didn’t sing gospel songs in my public school music class; and a teacher once asked whether…

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…s to a vast tract of land that had been donated for the purpose in Western New York State.) Apart from some fastidious Yankees, most supporters of African colonization had few misgivings about the rightness of chattel slavery. Their ranks numbered legendary compromiser Henry Clay of Kentucky and planter-statesmen John Randolph and Richard Bland Lee of Virginia. Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, was so named in 1824 to honor another slavery-supporting S…

Poor, Persecuted Dinesh D’Souza

By Sarah Posner

…allenged Senator Kristen Gillibrand for her seat in 2012. According to the New York Times, D’Souza’s lawyer is claiming that the government “targeted” D’Souza “because of his consistently caustic and highly publicized criticism” of President Obama. D’Souza’s much-discussed 2010 essay and book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, in which he blamed Obama’s “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior” on his adaptation of his father’s “anticolonial ideology,” made him a…

AIDS Progress is Paradoxical

By Susan Henking

…revention emphasize chastity instead. Cardinal O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, said doctors had an obligation to discourage the behavior patterns that can cause AIDS, saying an estimated 72 percent of AIDS victims in the United States contracted the virus from homosexual acts and 17 percent from drug use. “Sometimes I believe the greatest damage done to persons with AIDS is done by the dishonesty of those health care professionals who refuse…

Is it Kosher Now? The Evolution of Kashrut in the Wake of the Agriprocessor Fiasco

By Benjamin Weiner

…different than what the businesses are already expected to adhere to under New York state law.) Unlike the heksher tzedek, which also goes further in the moral obligations it places on the institutions that would seek its sanction, the tav does not aspire to the mantle of “kosherness,” but is instead set up as a kind of parallel system of okaying a food-provider according to the spirit of Judaism. These are tentative but welcome steps. The ancient…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…ting on evangelicalism, the same old patterns persist, for example in this New York Times piece that paints the opposition of many white evangelicals to getting vaccinated against COVID—an opposition driven by the decidedly unsympathetic motivations of fear-mongering conspiracy theories and resentment against othered groups—in an unduly sympathetic light. More recently, Times guest opinion columnist Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history…

Pop-Eye: Blind Faith and the Invisible Font

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…s in the United States and Europe). Meanwhile, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City recently acquired Helvetica as part of its permanent collection, the first typeface they have ever collected. Helvetica, whether we are conscious of it or not, has become a central visual reference in modern Western culture. Two tabs. One sacred and one profane? The Internet as a mode of erasing such differences? But the truth is more complex. What I am after…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…erú, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic recently visited D.C., New York, Texas and California as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Activists from Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and other countries have traveled to the U.S. over the last year. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder also takes a global look at what he calls a new cold war over human rights, in which Russia becomes a more importan…

Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…rican Religious Debates over Birth Control, 1907-1937, Archbishop Hayes of New York worked very hard to shut down the activities of Margaret Sanger because he believed that such technology violated the “natural” connection between sexuality and new life. In November 1921, he literally contacted the police to stop Sanger from using a public town hall for the American Birth Control Conference, telling the New York Times: Heinous is the sin committed…