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Democrats Alarmed Over USCCB Pressure on Obama over Contraceptive Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…exemption to protect the “consciences” of employers and employees. The New York Times reported this weekend that the mandate was a discussion topic when Obama met recently with the USCCB president, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who “said Mr. Obama was ‘very open to the sensitivities of the Catholic community.’” Democrats, not surprisingly, are alarmed that the Obama administration might back off a requirement approved by the HHS this past summer. HHS…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

By the third paragraph of Robert Draper’s recent New York Times Magazine cover story, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” one starts to suspect that the answer is no. It’s at this point that Lisa Kennedy Montgomery has finished comparing figures from the political Right to bands from the days when she was an MTV VJ known simply as “Kennedy.” Ron Paul is like Nirvana, she says, Rand Paul is like Pearl Jam, and Ted Cruz is, in many ways…

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…Bishop Romney and his interactions with Boston-area Mormon feminists. (The New York Times’s Sheryl Stolberg followed Stack’s trail of sources for her solid piece on Romney as bishop last month.) The Post’s story adds nuance through in-depth interviews with Boston-area Mormon feminists including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, scholar Claudia Bushman, and others, who offer a picture of Romney as a rules-oriented organizatio…

Un-Kosher Processing Plant

By Diane Winston

It’s not exactly new news—but the New York Times has an eye-popping update on abusive labor practices at a Postville, Iowa meatpacking plant. In case you missed it—in May, federal immigration officials raided the nation’s largest kosher plant, Agriprocessors, Inc. in Postville, which had employed almost 400 illegal immigrants, almost two dozen of whom were also under-age. The Times’ Sunday story offers recently uncovered details about…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…is 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 “the se…

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

By John Stoehr

…is day. Nazi influence in the US culminated with a huge march and rally in New York City in 1939. Thousands gathered in Madison Square Garden to listen to blatantly fascist speeches under the banners of George Washington adorned with swastikas. In 1940, FDR gave a fresh directive to hunt down Nazis. The FBI built a secret spy headquarters inside the 30 Rock building to spy on Nazi activities worldwide, but especially in South America where they co…

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

…a nice boost among progressives from the lengthy cover article in the New York Times Magazine, a good piece of reporting by Gideon Lewis-Krauss suggesting that HRC was absorbing into her rhetoric and into her forward planning some serious critique of the corporate state from the Roosevelt Institute and from the likes of Joe Stiglitz: a critique that cuts far deeper than Bernie’s and that is linked to very specific policy proposals. So yes, she wa…

Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…, just five months later, the tables have turned. Every new edition of the New York Times, it seems, carries fresh disclosures about priestly pedophilia in Ireland, Germany, and (most appallingly) at a Catholic school for the deaf in Wisconsin. Sadly enough, priestly pedophilia is old news by now. What’s new, in the opening of court documents that the Vatican sought desperately to suppress, is that the Catholic hierarchy stubbornly refused to deal…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…trination” rampant within the public school curriculum. He took aim at the New York Times’ 1619 Project that sought to re-examine America’s racist history, beginning with slavery, calling it “ideological poison” and claiming that its goal was to “dissolve the civic bonds of America” by interpreting our history through a racial lens, worsening already intractable racial divisions. As an alternative Trump declared that day he would sign “an executiv…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…sly. Or, apparently, rouse religious leaders to name what is really going on beneath the froth of Washington reporting. And by the way, the New York Times editorial board sees it this way, too….