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How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…he daughter of Robert Baxter, the man who successfully brought the case in Montana, moved me greatly. Roberta King didn’t want her father to die. She wasn’t at all supporting killing or elder abuse—as so much rhetoric from those who oppose legalization might characterize her position or that of other advocates. She was a daughter, like me, who loved her father desperately. And who supported his desire to not suffer any more. You paint a scenario i…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…as enjoined pending a legal challenge. This year’s actions bring to 27 the number of states with state-directed counseling requirements in effect. (emphasis added). The Minnesota bill did require that the woman be informed “whether or not an anesthetic or analgesic would eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child caused by the particular method of abortion to be employed and the particular medical benefits and risks associated with th…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…peace, love, and happiness and then leave you eating gruel in a bunker in Montana awaiting the apocalypse—and that’s if you get one that doesn’t end in Kool-Aid. While some sociologists study them under the broader category of New Religious Movements and endeavor to talk about these groups without the inherent stigma the word “cult” conveys, many folks who have lost loved ones, money, or their own sense of self to faith-on-the-fringes have a hard…

“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation

By Ann Neumann

…nce then, four more states have legalized aid in dying: Washington (2008), Montana (2010), Vermont (2013), and California (2015). This fall, the District of Columbia’s Council on Health and Human Services Committee approved continuation of the full council’s vote before the end of the year. New York currently has a pending court case and legislation; many observers suggest that passage in such a large, influential state could tip the balance for o…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…tion to drawing attention to how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue requires the funding of sectarian education in any state that provides “school choice” voucher funding to parents, the 2020 State of the Secular States report highlights the serious issue of unregulated homeschooling, which allows physical and sexual abuse of children to proliferate along with educational neglect. As the report notes, the latest dat…

Why Did Vandals Try to Destroy a Holy Tree?

By Joseph Laycock

…e he so desperately sought varies from story to story. 1997, White Cliffs, Montana: Vandals destroy the Eye of the Needle, a natural sandstone arch that had formed 200 feet above the Missouri River. First discovered by Euro-Americans when Lewis and Clark traversed the river in 1805, several pages of Meriwether Lewis’ journal are in fact spent describing the area’s beauty and the awesome power of nature. On discovering the collapsed arch, authoriti…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to the steady drumbeat of election fraud claims, to accusations that Dr. Fauci engineered Covid-19 in a Chinese lab to help a demonic caba…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…in his failed quest to install a 2.6-ton Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Supreme Court building) is one of the few lawyers in America who, Peroutka noted, truly “believes God is sovereign and therefore God’s law is the only law.” For Peroutka, the Constitution Party’s 2004 nominee for president, this was his usual spiel on God and the law. In the late 1970s, Titus played an instrumental role in launching the law school at Oral Roberts Un…

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…orm season in more than half a century. In April, tornadoes ripped through Alabama, and swaths of greater Memphis spent part of early May underwater thanks to record-high flooding of the Mississippi river. If you didn’t know better, you’d think this was some kind of Divine punishment visited upon the South—and now the Midwest, the American heartland. Which is funny, because when earthquakes struck Haiti, wildfires burned Israel, and a tsunami dren…

Romney Faring Better With Evangelicals… Or Just Worse With All Others?

By Joanna Brooks

This week’s primaries in Mississippi and Alabama added an interesting statistical wrinkle to the generally dismal storyline about Mitt Romney’s fate in the South: despite consistent prognostication that the candidate would fare especially poorly among Southern evangelicals due to his Mormonism, the Romney favorability gap between born-again Christian voters and other Republicans seems to be closing. In Mississippi, according to Pew Forum data, ab…