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How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…eties about about far-off forces like banks and the federal government that increasingly controlled the lives of Americans. And once issues enter this zone, they become irremediable by the mere tools of legislation and public policy. So today’s Republicans, who elevated policy questions about the delivery of health care into the great moral cause of our time, shouldn’t be surprised when they find that no amount of negotiations will find a solution…

Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…d secondary education, I should know. Privatizing public goods is not good policy, and the Reaganite “starve the beast” approach to governance is bad enough on its own. But privatizing public goods so that they can be manipulated by adherents of an extremist ideology is even worse policy, and if those who assure us that they are very concerned with American polarization really want to get at its source, they should stop placing the blame on Americ…

God’s Promise to Noah for Climate Change Denialism Cited by Potential Energy Policy Maker

By Lauri Lebo

…st spams, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” (YouTube’s complaint policy places the burden of proof on the person who has posted the video, not on the person making the complaint. So, if you don’t like a video somebody posted of you, you may say that it’s copyright infringement—or some other reason—and the video invariably gets removed. The person who posted the video then has to prove that it does no such thing before it can be restored….

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…carry bills. They realized that if they were going to generate state-level policy, they needed help implementing it in the states. So, the State Policy Network is a kind of a “think tank of think tanks” that brings together the national, state-level, and specialized think tanks. SPN brings together hundreds of think tanks in a kind of an integrated, networked way that serves as a vehicle for funding and also for communication amongst each other, f…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…haven’t published their county election manual online. Neither has America Policy Works. This suggests that the campaign has gone stealth since its ballyhooed launch. Garlow’s Well Versed ministry is listed among AFPI’s ‘movement partners,’ alongside business/libertarian groups like the Club for Growth, familiar Christian Right organizations like the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Family Research Council, and the Family Policy Alliance. Intriguingly…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…f missionary services as well, as did writer Jana Riess who celebrated the policy change but expressed limited disappointment that the new policy preserves a 24-month commitment for young men and an 18-month commitment for women missionaries. The missionary age change comes at a moment when the LDS Church is also preparing to roll out new curriculum that equalizes the emphasis on marriage and family in lessons taught to young men and young women….

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…n between this Church and other bodies, there shall arise a more inclusive United Church.” We don’t know if the United Church of Christ is called to die as an institution; but if it is, it will do so called by the Holy Spirit to create space for what may emerge for the sake of a movement we committed to being wholly a part of. What we do know is that this impulse towards an organic unity, fully reflective of what was intended by Jesus when he pray…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…seated fear from centuries of anti-Semitic repression, manipulation by the United States and other Western powers, and self-serving actions by some of their own leaders, a right-wing minority of American Jews support influential organizations such as AIPAC to advocate militaristic policies that, while particularly tragic for the Palestinians and Lebanese, are ultimately bad for the United States and Israel as well. Obama’s June 3 speech would have…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…m doesn’t break any new ground for the anti-choice movement, or offer the GOP presidential hopefuls many new themes for the campaign trail. But it does, in what has become a signature for Citizens United films, exploit raw emotion over rational policy. And that’s why it will likely provide fodder for the GOP candidates in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses….

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…blishment of the state, but one would be hard pressed to learn this in the United States. One reason might be that we in the United States don’t have as strong a tradition of public intellectual dissent as do other, older societies. Within Israel, a younger state, there is a tradition of political engagement that its European founders brought with them to Palestine. As in Europe and Latin America, Israel’s most prominent writers are also public in…