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The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…rnalists, academics, and students—mingle by the resort’s open-air pool and palm trees, cigars and drinks in hand, sharing their own distaste for liberal democracy, and their plans to turn that distaste into action. One day into the third annual National Conservatism conference, and after a long afternoon of impassioned speeches about the culture war, R. is fired up—and maybe slightly drunk. “I reject equality,” R. tells me as I strain to hide my a…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…olster protection for those who witness and report police brutality. While North Charleston’s new mandate that each of its police officers wear their own body cameras may be a step in the right direction, there is reason to remain skeptical. Mayor Keith Summey concluded that the “lesson” from the release of Santana’s video is that the public should “give us the appropriate time to investigate, find out exactly what happened, and… act accordingly.”…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

…are protecting our right to be a nation that prays and trusts in God.” In North Carolina, state House Republicans have filed a bill that would (if it were even conceivably constitutional) trump the Establishment Clause, nullify federal court rulings upholding the Establishment Clause, and allow North Carolina to establish a state religion (a Christian kind, that is). The bill’s sponsors are reacting to a lawsuit by the ACLU, seeking to have expli…

Why I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays

By Amy Laura Hall

…orked optimism. The name “Obama” was divisive in many neighborhoods across North Carolina, but in Durham, North Carolina his sign in your yard meant hopeful solidarity across the unbridgeable divides of race. It was a heady, heart-felt time for us, as we wrote letters and knocked door to door. But my daughter said something right after President Obama won that gave me pause. She woke up on November 5 with a deflated sense of purpose. She was going…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…difference from the present is that the southerners will enjoy ever-larger numbers. Divisions within the Catholic Church fall far short of the passions that have driven a North-South schism within the Anglican Communion, but that is a troubling precedent. Serbia: Far-right politician embraced by IOF for anti-LGBT diatribe calling for ban on pride parades International Organization for the Family’s Brian Brown lavished praise on a recent parliament…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…lves as charismatic or Pentecostal Christians (38%).” Pinning down precise numbers for LLDM is almost impossible. The church claims to have more than three million members abroad, and 1.5 million in Mexico, which would make it the country’s largest non-Catholic religious institution. The 2010 Mexican census reported only around 200,000 members, but that number may well be low (the Mormon church in Mexico has argued that the religious count was ina…

Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…s, stunted sexuality, homophobia, and sexual abuse are competing for issue number one in their churches; at many, they are tied at the number one slot. It is high time to for the leaders of the black church to ‘put away childish things’ and to engage in a real conversation about sexuality, same-sex marriage, and the homophobia embedded in the black church community. Pontificating and posturing props up preachers, and does little to edify congregat…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…om the voters for answers. Third—and this is my hope and my prayer—people will at last decide that they have had enough moral and legal compromise. They will at last decide to adopt a simple system of honest money, along with competitive free market principles throughout the economy.” In fact Gary North (who at one time worked for Rep. Paul) is currently describing the debate over the debt ceiling as political theater. But that’s because he is sur…

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Need for a Third Reconstruction

By Eric Foner

…They implemented, for the first time, a functioning interracial democracy. North Carolina, as Rev. Barber points out, experienced a remarkable degree of interracial cooperation. As late as the 1890s, a coalition of black Republicans and white Populists governed the state, until massive violence ousted them from power. The idea of what he calls “fusion” politics has a special meaning in North Carolina, given this experience. The civil rights revolu…

Challenging Plantation Capitalism: Rev. Barber’s Holy Cause

By Tefere Gebre

…h Carolina that we now know as Moral Mondays, he has challenged his fellow North Carolinians to remember their heritage. Not the racist myths of the Old South but a genuine progressive heritage that produced in North Carolina the South’s finest public universities, paved roads, and established public libraries at a time when so many of the other states of the South made private wealth and public squalor their operating principle. In his new book a…