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The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…w Deal’s racial implications were overwhelmingly supportive of Roosevelt’s policies well into the 1940s. In recent years we have been muddling through a “Great Recession” in which many of the problems and the arguments of the 1930s have been resurfacing. What can this history teach us about our present political-economic situation? The Great Depression revealed the inability of voluntary agencies to care for people in a crisis. It showed that chur…

‘Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom’ Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the ‘Nice’ Charade?

By Diana Butler Bass

…or bigot or fake president. He implied it all—he dogwhistled all the same policies that are now being passed in Republican-controlled legislatures—as he smiled, prayed, and shot hoops. All while wearing a dad-vest as a kind of armor of nice. When I wrote an essay calling Youngkin a “wolf in fleece clothing,” a surprising number of straight, white, Christian, married, suburban moms criticized me on Facebook for not being nice to him. They didn’t a…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…the bill to pass. Mormonism has always been inseparably connected to these policies. Utah was granted statehood in 1896, only after LDS leaders promised to give up the faith’s controversial, yet defining, feature. And though the church took more than another decade to fully divorce itself from the practice, for much of the twentieth century Mormon leaders and politicians alike were unfailing in their quest to purge the state of polygamists, adopti…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…titutional footing. Although Catholic Charities lost challenges to similar policies in state courts in California and New York, several Catholic and evangelical universities have sued HHS in federal courts around the country, charging that the contraception coverage requirement violates their religious freedom. While a federal court has yet to rule on the mandate, a ruling issued late Friday night demonstrates how the claim of infringement of reli…

If Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said

By Haroon Moghul

…Whom do those values apply to? How can we make up for years of support for policies and actions that discriminated against and harmed Palestinians without abandoning our ties to Israel? What are the reasons for our support for these policies? How will we reconcile these different narratives? The Jewish-Muslim conversation may be the greatest interfaith challenge of our time, and for many Jews and Muslims, Israel and Palestine are the greatest stum…

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

By Mary E. Hunt

…t a candidate who opposes abortion but favors fiscal, military, and social policies that run counter to much of Catholic social teaching. Predictably, George Weigel and other Catholic conservative writers are also deeply disturbed by this turn of events. They are realistic about how hard it is to make a case for the Republican platform on the basis of Catholic social teaching. Even if abortion were not on the table, Senator McCain’s approaches to…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…there isn’t frustration, sometimes deep frustration, about Israel and its policies in the American government. But it is to say that whatever frustrations may exist, legislators and candidates cannot voice their disagreement with Israel in public. So, what is this insatiable love of Israel about? Has anti-Semitism turned into a kind of disproportionate philo-Semitism? And is this love for Israel really philo-Semitism or something altogether more…

Rev. William Barber Calls Jeff Sessions Nomination A “Moral Crisis”

By Peter Montgomery

…er someone uses the n-word or is “a nice person.” Racism is about systemic policies that deny people justice. Sessions’ “immoral record,” he said, shows consistent support for ideological extremism and racist, classist policies. Barber excoriated Sessions for supporting the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act, which makes it harder for marginalized groups to vote. He said Sessions has shown contempt for the law, which the Department…

Because God Tells Me So; Do Jews Have a “Historic Right” to Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…stand the complex relationship between their commitment to Zionism and the policies of a Jewish State they love but often disagree with. The “pro-Israel” camp would like to collapse the two, arguing that one’s Zionist credentials are determined exclusively by one’s uncritical support of Israeli policies (and often basing that support on a “historic right” that ignores the equally valid “historic right” of the Palestinian people), but the American…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…ystem. Personally, I would put it directly into education. One of our main policies at the Transhumanist Party is we want to provide totally free education. And I’m actually also for mandating that everyone in the country goes to college. In the age of much longer life spans, it’s very likely that anyone under twenty will live to one hundred and fifty years old. So, as a nation, if we’re going to be living longer, we should also probably have long…