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Herman Cain Doesn’t Know his Afghan from his Uzbek

By Haroon Moghul

…aven’t seen a Central Asian Spring is because these mostly Turkic, largely Sunni countries are still in a post-Communist hangover, trying to figure out who they are and what their place in the world is. By far the most populated of these vast, sparse countries is Uzbekistan, and it’s unfortunately inappropriately named dictator, Islam Karimov, is a holdover from the Soviet era. He is also easily one of the most brutal rulers in the world, and his…

What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering

By Kentina and Naomi Washington-Leapheart

…ey find out I have two moms? Will we enter into a nuclear war with another country? She’s worried, and at times terrified, about what she hears on the news. But when Sophia talks about mothering, her mind pivots away from what exists now toward what’s possible. She imagines that, through mothering, she will have an opportunity to nurture hope and change. She wants to teach her child to respect all people. She wants to raise children who are curiou…

Ugandan Bishops Push Notorious Anti-Gay Bill

By Peter Montgomery

…ah Lwanga, indicated. The clerics also appealed to all the churches in the country “to remain steadfast in opposing the phenomena of homosexuality, lesbianism and same-sex union.” The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, known by many as the “kill-the-gays bill,” is one of the most notorious pieces of legislation in the world. It is backed by First Lady Janet Museveni and legislators with close ties to the American religious right. The bill, which emerged aft…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…larger systems that are sometimes evil? For example, we seem to live in a country where there’s lots of racism, but where nobody thinks of themselves as racist… I totally agree with you, and that reminds me of Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society—that you can believe yourself to be moral within your neighborhood, because people wave to you and you drop off Christmas cookies and you are a good person, but you’re not really seeing the larger pic…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…e not people who will ever accept a diverse and functioning democracy in a country where non-Hispanic whites will slip below 50% of the total population within just a few decades. And here I will raise an alarm that’s not so much about the Right’s ongoing potency but about the Left’s complementary lack of same. I mentioned that Rightists don’t think of themselves as dead-enders, so why should we think of them that way? How is it that once the imme…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…hese past decades aligned itself with a particular political party in this country, the Republican Party, which has dominated politics since the 1968 election of Richard Nixon. Abortion as a moral issue cannot be understood without the realization that it has been, and continues to be, primarily a political issue promoted by religious groups with a far larger agenda than simply abortion—and driven by an energy that goes far deeper into the racial…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…pregnancy centers in her home state of Idaho, as well as a few around the country and in Ireland and Scotland, spoke of the Left going after “pro-women pregnancy care centers” that are simply trying to give women options. Swindell warned against the abortion pill, which she said is leading to the “trafficking of abortions” by healthcare providers who are deceptively on a mission to “sell abortions,” or by men who are forcing abortion on their par…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…he said. “The polls have never shown great Constitutional literacy in this country, right down to knowing the rights spelled out in the First Amendment.” “So the facts be damned,” Boston said. And he added: They have a purer form of knowledge that transcends facts; they believe they are on a God-given mission to bring those facts into the public sphere. There is a power to being told that you belong to a special class of people whose history has b…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…berty is found in democratic Senegal. Independent in 1960, this 90%-Muslim country proceeded to elect a President, Leopold Senghor, who shared the Catholic religion of the country’s former colonizer (France). He was subsequently reelected four times, serving until 1980. How many European countries have had a non-Christian leader? But none of this is of any interest to Caldwell. What excites him is the dream of a traditional Europe, in which there…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…I have a young daughter and we were supposed to celebrate our birthdays on Sunday. We were supposed to celebrate our birthdays together by painting pottery and taking a trip to Target. We did do those things, and we laughed and we held hands and she ate a cake pop and I watched for shooters. What the hell do we do? In October 2022, two scholars from the Harvard Kennedy School published a paper recommending immediate responses to the threats agains…