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Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…holders from borrowed funds). As tax expert Edward Kleinbard put it to the New York Times, Trump’s proposal is “a very cynical document”: The extraordinary thing about the proposal is that we know that it loses trillions of dollars in revenue, yet at the same time the only people we can identify as guaranteed winners are the most affluent. Bear in mind that the GOP plan actually raises taxes for the poorest wage earners while ensuring that future…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…to the question of some of his followers regarding their responsibility vis-à-vis the Azeri journalist Rafiq Taqi’s writings, is as follows: “such a person with the foresaid confessions, if he is a born Muslim, he is an apostate, and if he is an unbeliever, it is a case of insulter of the Prophet and in any event, assuming such confessions, killing him would be necessary for whoever has access to him, and the person in charge of the mentioned pape…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…ders almost without comment, a self-contained punchline after the month-and-a-half-long assault on reproductive rights that Democrats have named “The War on Women.” But Genig’s words could have been taken directly out of the books that launched the Quiverfull movement. Taken together with Southern Baptist Mike Huckabee’s declaration that, in the wake of the contraception debate, “We’re all Catholic now,” Genig’s argument underscores how far the ro…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…d by radical Imams,” based on a remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine ho…

The Third Jihad, Adelson, and Gingrich

By Sarah Posner

…es. First, Linda Sarsour, the director of the Arab American Association of New York, discussed the NYPD: Beckerman and Sarsour then discussed Adelson, and his impact on Gingrich, including the latter’s assertion that the Palestinians are an “invented people:” CLARIFICATION: This post originally said that Adelson funded the Clarion Fund; this was based on a Times piece from earlier this week which reported that the Clarion Fund’s Obsession project…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…rized current media world. In a world where Vogue’s choice of a Palestinian-American cover model for its anniversary issue gets everyone all riled up and an Israeli model’s Facebook posts on the conflict are put under scrutiny, it is probably no surprise that BBC reporters and CNN anchors can face professional consequences for making any kind of statement about the conflict. In the Jewish media universe, as the Forward itself reported, even the wi…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…of State. As someone who has written about the civic engagement of African-American women in my latest book, Rev. Cook’s scattered resumé lacks the distinction of other notable black women historically involved in both religious affairs and international engagement, such as Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, civil rights leader, and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, or Sue Bailey Thurman, who was committed to inter-religious and interra…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…to his commentary on the Occupy movement for The Nation, Harper’s, and The New York Times. He has also written about the largesse of the Templeton Foundation and profiled the anthropologist Gabriella Coleman for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Schneider’s “The Biblical Circus of William Stringfellow,” the first of many contributions to RD, appeared just four weeks after RD’s launch in early 2008. His new book, God In Proof, is the story of “th…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ogy. The Washington political class has spent the past week going into made-for-TV hysterics over $165 million in A.I.G. bonuses. We’re in the middle of a multitrillion-dollar crisis, and our political masters—always willing to throw themselves into any issue that is understandable on cable television—have decided to risk destroying the entire bank-rescue plan because of bonuses that account for 0.001 percent of the annual G.D.P. The problem is qu…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…re was an intense and often unseen struggle to fight back against this Nazi-American rightwing coalition. Is this the 1940s fork in the road you were talking about? Yes, precisely. Like with other paradigm shifts, there were years of building to this point, and years of aftermath. Nazi spies were operating in the US in the 1930s. The FBI was tasked with tracking them down. Meanwhile, US companies had businesses operating within Nazi Germany. Beyon…