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David Brooks’ Latest Column: a Q & A Session

Q.: Should we be at all surprised that David Brooks’ latest column is a steaming pile of platitudes? A.: No. Brooks is a master of the thunderingly obvious. We should be grateful for this, as it seems to be the only thing that prevents him from veering off into the territory of the demonstrably wrong. Q.: Should we be surprised then that Brooks passes on somebody else’s platitudes as if they were prophetic oracles? A.: No. Brooks is also a master…

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What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

…o-op and the parents in charge are required to go to court. There, a judge rules against the co-op, forcing the parents to either enroll their children in an accredited school or face fines and jail time. At the same time, the federal government considers a bill that would nationalize educational standards—like Common Core, which is frequently targeted in the film—and ban homeschooling. A conservative politician involved in the bill’s hearings lea…

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Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages

…al and economic disparities on earth while giving wealthy, white Christian nationalists new privileges of cosmic proportions in the heavens? The Trump administration’s praise of private interests as securing American dominance in space is one symptom of a broader policy agenda that advances the privatization and commercialization of prisons, education, the military, and other public institutions—an agenda that normalizes the New Jim Crow. Much mor…

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Religion, Lies, and Videotape: Planned Parenthood and the Latest Fake Sting

…not saying I know the truth, but I do reach for it with all my might. The latest distortion of the truth about Planned Parenthood is mean. Its target is an iconic organization founded in 1916 to disseminate birth control. (Thank God for Maggie Sanger.) It is an organization that one out of five American women have visited and which focuses on reproductive health as well as breast exams and excellent sexual education for girls. It also provides sa…

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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat

…nce care planning should have been included in the original publication of new Medicare rules back in July in order to allow more public comment. But the Boston Globe got it right in a stinging editorial: the truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s jus…

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The Best Books Media of 2008

…nd across the country. In God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade (Polipoint), she deftly dissects the financial doings—and more importantly, the financial methods—of religious right leaders waging perpetual culture war on their followers’ dime. She follows the money from televangelists and tax-exempt churches to some of the stranger and more mystical corners of evangelicaldom, and back again. * * * When the right-wing documentary…

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Maddow Confronts Author of Ugandan “Kill the Gays” Bill

…n if it means that people will die. What gives me hope is that, unlike homosexuality, bigotry is a learned behavior that can be unlearned. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Part 2: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

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McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

…arriage roles. How does Palin square these nods to traditionalist family structure with her national aspirations? Through a disclaimer familiar among the women leaders of the antifeminist movement (like Phyllis Schlafy, the grandmother of the cause) who rally women to make careers and personal interests secondary to their highest calling as mothers. Palin, emphasizing her “hockey mom” ordinariness, even while vying for one of the highest offices i…

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Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

…fellow abortion abolition leader) Jason Storms, has been appointed as the new National Director of Operation Save America. OSA was formerly led by Rev. Phillip (“Flip”) Benham, and then Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas, under whose leadership it began to mobilize for abolition. Storms was among the antiabortion leaders at the Capitol on January 6th. He called it a “revolution.” Occupy the last days Matt Shea hasn’t changed much since changing jobs. On Insur…

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The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

…park visitors like VanBoskerck by presenting WDW as a refuge from the real world, a literal fantasyland in which all your dreams come true. Within this fantasy, you—the capital-G Guest—are the star of the show, evil is clearly defined and easily defeated, and the past is celebrated as a source of comfort and inspiration. And while this ideology makes for happy guests and healthy profits, it also has deep affinities with the worldview that white ev…

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