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Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks

By Chrissy Stroop

…ding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and FBI Director James Comey, knew that Russia had hacked both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee but only leaked Democratic documents, and that they suppressed this information, apparently for purely partisan reasons. However, with the exception of a handful of Republican leaders such as Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, this has not stopped Republicans from d…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…eform proposals. The other kind of evangelicals are the sort of people who run outfits like The Fellowship Foundation and the National Prayer Breakfast, and run around speaking at Evangelical colleges, think tanks, law schools and so forth, working to influence government and world affairs directly while bypassing the democratic process. How to deal with this? A few thoughts: First, all religious organizations should to be taxed in exactly the sam…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…test over authority. Who gets to determine scientific fact? Can we really trust the people in power? Are the coronated Determiners of Truth—namely, academic researchers and government scientists—really reliable and legitimate? Stein gets this. That’s why, when the Washington Post asked her about vaccines, she said that they were “an invaluable medication”—and then immediately pivoted to talk about the untrustworthiness of the FDA, the CDC, and oth…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…most want to be like right now. She’s a model for liberals in the age of Trump. It’s true that her critique of Linus’s delusion sometimes crosses the line into bullying. But she acts with love toward him throughout the show. No one else does. In the very first scene, Lucy and Linus go out together to pick a pumpkin from the patch to bring home. Later, while trick-or-treating, she asks for extra candy she can give him. She checks his bedroom at 4…

From Original Sin to Flattering Mirror: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Jeanne Theoharis

…t of the nation itself. They marked the Americanness of the civil rights struggle, and held up the power of US democracy and progress to the world. Political leaders, pundits, and citizens came to see and tell the story of the modern civil rights movement as one of progress and national redemption. Jim Crow was framed as a horrible Southern relic, and the movement to unseat it became a powerful tale of courageous Americans defeating a long-ago evi…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…mposing belief upon others. He was quite happy to walk in Michael Jordan’s newest sneakers to the local mosque, slip them off for prayer, and shrugged when they disappeared, as inevitably they would. That kind of piety seems inconceivable, and that kind of quiet certainty appears improbable in an era when politics does not work, but has to and should, and the disconnect between the two has left the entire region seething and desperate. What happen…

New Poll Shows Evangelicals Vote Democrat Too

By Robert P. Jones

…0 reporters to talk about how this bias distorts our understanding of both politics and religion. You can listen to the call here. The post-election poll found the following important findings: • Senator Hillary Clinton’s support from white evangelicals surpassed that of Senator Barack Obama’s (MO: 54% to 37%; TN: 78% to 12%). • Contrary to the conventional wisdom that the GOP has a lock on white evangelical voters, 1 in 3 evangelicals voted in th…

Pew Finds Trump-Era Increase in the ‘Evangelical’ Label — And Yes, They’re ‘Real’ Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…s, a process French maintains took place over decades and culminated with Trump, then what exactly are they telling us? The truth is, not much. Without more granular data, we can only engage in (hopefully informed and plausible) speculation about the forces behind the numbers. Who are these white Trump voters who eschewed the “born again” label in 2016 but had adopted it by 2020? I would guess they skew older, and thus hardly represent the wave of…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…y similar laws to the new federal regulation in two states, California and New York, and the highest courts in both states held that there was no violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. That’s because the law doesn’t “substantially burden” anyone’s religious practice and is one of general applicability that was not targeted at infringing a particular religious practice. To permit religious beliefs to “excuse complianc…

America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…onvergence of white evangelical Christianity, right-wing nationalism, and Trumpism as it morphed into a virulent form white Christian nationalism. These books offer critiques of the roots of this religious phenomenon as it came into full bloom during the 2016 presidential election and subsequent Trump presidency. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Robert P. Jones Simon & Schuster 2020 White Evangelical Racism: T…