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Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…holders from borrowed funds). As tax expert Edward Kleinbard put it to the New York Times, Trump’s proposal is “a very cynical document”: The extraordinary thing about the proposal is that we know that it loses trillions of dollars in revenue, yet at the same time the only people we can identify as guaranteed winners are the most affluent. Bear in mind that the GOP plan actually raises taxes for the poorest wage earners while ensuring that future…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…teenage evangelical boys who’ve wrestled with doubt, and he’s the atheist crusaders’ most feared enemy. He’s also a gifted organizer [who is helping to hatch] an ingenious plan to transform the map of academic philosophy. Inside particular subcultures of evangelical atheists and evangelical Christians, he’s a huge celebrity; but outside them, he’s almost completely unknown. That may change soon. How does religion inform (or not inform) your intere…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…datory and harmful adoption practices. Now, as Ruth Graham reports for The New York Times, Bethany takes the position that “Christians of mutual good faith can reasonably disagree on various doctrinal issues, about which Bethany does not maintain an organizational position.” This, of course, stops short of endorsing LGBTQ identities or same-sex marriage. Still, it’s a significant positive change, so it’s worth asking what motivated Bethany to take…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…ception is a significant financial burden.” Lori’s piece was followed by a New York Times op-ed purportedly written by Constance Veit, the Little Sisters’ director of vocations, but which sounded an awful lot like the briefs filed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of the order. The op-ed argues that requiring the sisters to notify the Department of Health and Human Services that it intends to opt-out of the contraceptive mandate,…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…he travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux wrote earlier this month in the New York Times about communities across the South where factories have closed as jobs went overseas, a shift that has been broadcast as part of an effort “to uplift impoverished people” around the world. But such heroism is hypocritical. Theroux writes, I found towns in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas that looked like towns in Zimbabwe, just as overlooked…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…Kelley has shown in the example of the destruction of public play areas in New York in the 1990s. As these performative moves reveal, America is a White space, and public spaces are sites of impromptu and systematic ritualized take-backs—land grabs writ small—because Whiteness is anti-public, anti-commons, and privatizing. Indeed, even these “public” spaces are stolen spaces, as is the case in the Malheur preserve, which sits on the Burns Paiute T…

Democrats Alarmed Over USCCB Pressure on Obama over Contraceptive Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…der exemption to protect the “consciences” of employers and employees. The New York Times reported this weekend that the mandate was a discussion topic when Obama met recently with the USCCB president, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who “said Mr. Obama was ‘very open to the sensitivities of the Catholic community.’” Democrats, not surprisingly, are alarmed that the Obama administration might back off a requirement approved by the HHS this past summer….

How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…Bishop Romney and his interactions with Boston-area Mormon feminists. (The New York Times’s Sheryl Stolberg followed Stack’s trail of sources for her solid piece on Romney as bishop last month.) The Post’s story adds nuance through in-depth interviews with Boston-area Mormon feminists including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, scholar Claudia Bushman, and others, who offer a picture of Romney as a rules-oriented organizatio…

The Third Jihad, Adelson, and Gingrich

By Sarah Posner

…es. First, Linda Sarsour, the director of the Arab American Association of New York, discussed the NYPD: Beckerman and Sarsour then discussed Adelson, and his impact on Gingrich, including the latter’s assertion that the Palestinians are an “invented people:” CLARIFICATION: This post originally said that Adelson funded the Clarion Fund; this was based on a Times piece from earlier this week which reported that the Clarion Fund’s Obsession project…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…k at what is actually at stake. The most visible targets of the austerity crusaders—Obamacare and Planned Parenthood—are programs that serve and help low-income people of color to a disproportionate degree. Ditto for Medicaid, already badly cut in successful budget rounds and now on tap for yet more cuts and possible block-granting. And the “universal” entitlement programs that remain the big prize in the budget cutters’ long war on domestic spend…