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New for Democrats: Non-Personhood for the Non-Rich

By Peter Laarman

…wrote a piece in which he featured a down-and-out family—the Hartzells of Tampa, FL—who were getting ready to pack up their meager belongings and head off to stay with friends in remote North Georgia in hopes that something better might turn up. There are millions of families like the Hartzells out there—the Joads of this ruthless new economy—but there is no evidence at all that anyone in the political class is prepared to give them a seat at the…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…ocate a single interest group for). Start with the political editor of the Tampa Bay Times last month who (in a piece asserting that a different group of donors helped change US policy) wrote: “while Miami politicians and campaign donors may have dictated U.S. policy to Cuba for decades…” Also from last month, there’s the Miami Herald which wrote, in a piece on Jeb Bush telling the US-Cuba Democracy PAC that the embargo should be strengthened rath…

Christian Responses to COVID-19 Raise Old Religion v. Science Questions

By Chrissy Stroop

…ideo of charismatic Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne encouraging members of his Tampa, Florida-based megachurch congregation to shake hands this last Sunday as he defiantly proclaimed that his church would remain open because the Lord would keep Christians safe there. He added, “This Bible school is open because we’re raising young revivalists, not pansies.” Asked what factors into the behavior of Christians like Howard-Browne, Zauzmer commented on the…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…and privilege despite declining demographics. Further loss of prestige and numbers will not automatically translate into the loss of power for a group that’s doing everything it can to maintain minority authoritarian rule. But even so, America’s trajectory of rapid religious disaffiliation since the 1990s seems bound to catch up with the white, right-wing Christian population eventually. Conservative Christians and social scientists have already b…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…assembles next. Barry McKeen, Administrator at Grace Christian School near Tampa, Florida, describes how NBCNews published an article about his school’s anti-LGBTQ policies. McKeen defends his school for not allowing its students to “practice homosexuality” or be (openly) transgender because his school follows what he calls “the truth of God.” Co-panelist Troy McIntosh, Executive Director of Ohio Christian Education Network, speaks of his “model C…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…of the sadly predictable lines of rhetoric at the Republican convention in Tampa was the assertion that the Obama administration is waging a war on religious liberty. Now GOP officials are taking things a step further, using the absence of the word “God” in the Democratic Party platform to suggest that Democrats are waging a war on the Almighty himself, not to mention his role in our nation’s founding. What Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog aptly cal…

Tropical Storm Isaac Bears Down on RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…sters are keeping an eye on tropical storm Isaac, heading for Florida with Tampa and the Republican National Convention in its path. Is it a sign from God? That’s what the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank cheekily suggested yesterday, stringing together the bad forecast with Missouri Representative Todd Akins’s atrocious comments on “legitimate rape” and the public relations disaster of that sort of blasphemous Republican skinny-dip in the Sea of G…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…ablishment are trying to push Akin away (Akin is now saying he won’t go to Tampa), there’s been a lot of discussion of whether Akin is more radical on abortion than the GOP can countenance. As Think Progress has reported, Akin and Ryan have been co-sponsors of several anti-abortion bills in Congress, including a “personhood” bill and one that introduced the term “forcible” rape (as opposed to the other kind) in an effort to further restrict the ci…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…vative leaders in an eleven-city (Detroit, Phoenix, Los Angeles Cleveland, Tampa, Orlando, Chicago, Indianapolis, Pewaukee, WI; Sacramento and Newark), “Education Revolution Tour,” the goal of which is to renew “American Exceptionalism.” The result of these reforms is likely to be a fractured educational system incapable of serving the very purpose of public education: to ensure an educated citizenry capable of participating in a democracy. An RD…

Is the Ryan VP Pick Good for Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…rmonism will play if any in the Romney biopic they’ll screen at the RNC in Tampa? I’m seeing Mormon pioneer covered wagons turning into Nash Ramblers. I’m seeing a young hardworking man who volunteered to serve amidst a strange and troublesome anti-American people—the French. Wasn’t he earnest? Wasn’t that difficult? And the important leadership lessons he learned helped him guide a struggling startup called Bain. I think his experience as a leade…