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Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

…kescreen. These payments are time-bound, limited in who and how many they reach, and woefully insufficient to meet even the most basic living expenses. Indeed, over one in three Americans say the benefits will not sustain them for a single month. And even if the payments were more robust, the current rules mean that those too poor to have to file taxes will either face weeks or months before they receive payments or won’t even receive them at all….

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…k of satisfying them. But Buddhism tells a very different story. Buddhist teachings hold that human desire is insatiable—full stop. In fact, the more a person gratifies it, the more it grows. Samsara—Buddhism’s endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth—can be understood allegorically as the condition of someone who misunderstands the self as fixed and desire as something that can be entirely alleviated. You can’t bring your possessions to the gra…

WaPo OpEd: Pope Francis and the Koch Bros Love and Serve the Poor Together

By Patricia Miller

…fact, practically handmaidens of Pope Francis and Catholic social justice teaching, working to help the poor by freeing them from the shackles of big government—or so say John and Carol Saeman in an op-ed in the Washington Post that must have mistakenly migrated from The Onion. The Saemans are Catholics who claim to “adhere to the Holy Father’s vision” of a preferential option for the poor. As part of their charitable activities, they donate to Ch…

Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…led McCorvey’s conversion, denied paying her (although the documentary surfaced financial documents that his organization did). But Benham also said, “…but she chose to be used. That’s called work. That’s what you’re paid to be doing!” Former Benham associate Rev. Rob Schenk admits to the camera, “the jig is up.” But this story is about more than grift. It’s about how, when the history is written, it may record that what we call the culture war wa…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…lly makes much of, though I’ve not heard a single person mention it since. Each election cycle since 2006 has generated a little burst of God-talk from Democrats in the hope of wooing disgruntled evangelicals from the GOP. It’s slow, alright, and perhaps more of a rumble than a quake. And while the durability of a new movement is always difficult to assess when it’s young, it is nonetheless already clear that the politics of the “new” evangelicals…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…istian Coalition, which used churches to identify and mobilize voters and reach them with its vaunted voters’ guides, the pastors’ councils are focused on turning pastors into figures who scoff at the idea that politics shouldn’t be conducted from the pulpit, and who will encourage their flock to get active—particularly at crisis pregnancy centers. Welch is one of the original signers, along with other religious right activists, of a “24-Year Plan…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…less shallow ones? The term “blessed” also has the deeper sense of being sacred, sanctified, or consecrated. This deeper sense can be glossed in theological or secular terms. A lot of the religious people I interviewed for the book, people participating in citizens’ groups through their churches or synagogues, told me that they joined this or that struggle because they take human beings to be sacred. For a human being to be sacred is for him or h…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…self-governance is a basic human right—particularly when they do so in a peaceful manner. The people have discovered the ability to see beyond the horizons of their present reality, and have taken a stand. By contrast, I thought of a John Mayer song that I recently downloaded, “Waiting on the World to Change”: Me and all my friends, we’re all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and there’s no way we ever could Now we see everything that’s…

That Not-So-Mystifying Rick Warren

By Sarah Posner

…me God in red and blue states; the same candidate Obama who believed that reaching out to evangelicals who’d never vote for him might bear electoral fruit; and the same President-elect Obama who asked Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. At the time, Obama came under fire for the pick, given Warren’s hostility to LGBT and reproductive rights, as well as his dabbling in equivalencies like abortion=Holocaust and gay sex=incest. But,…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…ply personal that way. You dream of possibility, enwrapped in the process. Each minute an opportunity for equalization, victory or loss; yet each minute fleeting all the same. Seeing the human body at work on a football pitch, however, can also be pedestrian, taking place year-round on every continent, every zip code. It is a game, proven by its global appeal, which defies socioeconomic standing. Therein lies further emphasis of the World Cup’s im…