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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…and nuns, Christian and otherwise, live in monasteries and convents; and a number of historic Protestant churches, especially those best endowed financially, provide parsonages. But over time, an increasing number of clergy have made their own living arrangements. Churches found parsonages prohibitively expensive; congregants preferred to see their donations go toward services rather than clergy housing; and new religious ventures, especially the…

Washington Post Critic’s Coded Racial Comments On New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour

By Hussein Rashid

…r from a dearth of sane, intelligent people in their opinion sections. The Washington Post, which has created a welfare state for former Bush speechwriters, ran a screed by Tom Shales against the selection of Amanpour. Shales writes in the Style Columns as a TV critic, which gives him the same information level and tin-ear to foreign and domestic policy as most Bush speechwriters. By dint of his extended research about the show Saturday Night Live…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…President’s best efforts to change the culture and the tone of Washington, DC, an economic stimulus package (680 pages long) was passed in the US House of Representatives without a single Republican vote. It was a staggering symbolic defeat. And then, an initially more hopeful process to create a leaner bill (431 pages long) in the Senate stalled, despite back-room dealing among Senate centrists from both parties, so that by this weekend, it now s…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…Charlottesville as Neutral First Amendment protectors, Commander Says,” TheWashington Post, August 13, 2017. [28] Gallaher, 200-204. [29] Frederick Clarkson, “Anti-abortion bombings related,” The Intelligence Report, September 15, 1998. [30] Erik Larson, “Unrest in the West: Welcome to Nevada’s Nye County, Whose Angry Residents Are Spearheading the Region’s Charge against Washington,” Time Magazine, October 23, 1995. [31] Carolyn Gallaher, “Placin…

Terror is as Terror Does

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…by these lights, there are a great many countries we ought to be invading—Sudan, at a minimum. Not bombing, invading. So the ouster of Saddam Hussein was hung, once again, on a larger geopolitical canvas and a very bold dream: the irresistible march of freedom and democracy, a successful Iraq serving as a beacon for similar aspirations of other less-free peoples in this long-suffering region. But that is an impossible dream to sell today, given h…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…here people are being ethnically cleansed in places like Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Rohingya would be even better. We’ve been here before. Silence is complicity—and no matter how the Right or the pop-culture world spin the Swift/Kelce story, it’s all about generating outrage to fill pockets while we ignore and suppress an instinctive human connection we all have deep within us. Maybe there’s an argument to be made that these are simply singers a…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…opted a resolution against anti-LGBT violence and discrimination. From the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: The U.S., along with Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, Macedonia, the U.K., Venezuela and Vietnam voted for the proposal. Algeria, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Indonesia, Kenya,…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…mpromising the integrity of an indigenous organization’s work? There are a number of organizations that are really good at channeling aid to women working at the grassroots. The Global Fund for Women, for example, does amazing work. On a more macro scale, people in developed countries often have access to levers of power that people on the ground don’t. Agnes Pareyio’s story is instructive. She’s an amazing Masai woman in Kenya who runs a shelter…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Syria, and Somalia punish homosexuality with prison, even up to 10 years. Sudan, Iran, and Yemen officially punish homosexuality with death. OutRight has documented more than 39 people killed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria for alleged homosexuality from 2014 to 2016 alone. By closing the doors to LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees, President Trump is effectively accepting the persecution and violence targeting this community and allowing some LGBTIQ p…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…administration’s slapdash effort to ban travel from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—currently blocked by federal judges in Hawai’i and Maryland—serves as a striking reminder of how precarious citizenship is. Green card holders have traditionally been extended the full courtesy of citizenship for entry into the United States. In January, they were robbed of that privilege without any warning. Normally, we would argue that we have to b…