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Doonesbury Cartoons Cause Controversy, But for Wrong Reasons

By Sarah Posner

…d well. As Joffe points out, soon after the transvaginal-as-rape meme took flight, “Will abortion clinic staff who perform the ultrasound be seen as ‘rapists,’ as the provider I mentioned earlier worried? This is a possibility not lost on the anti-abortion website LifeNews, which recently ran the headline, ‘If Ultrasound is Rape, Arrest Planned Parenthood Staffers.’” Trudeau doesn’t get this. He told the Washington Post, of the Texas ultrasound la…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

When I first heard the tragic news of the shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, I was preparing a lecture for my Introduction to Western Religions course on Jesus in the Qur’an. This lecture asks a deceptively simple question: How was Islam different from Christianity in the 7th century? As a historian of religion, I like to use questions like this to challenge my students to interrogate the definitions of religion that we use and ho…

Conservative Black Preacher Leads Crusade Against Hate Crimes Legislation

By Bill Berkowitz

…other people. It creates a two-tiered justice system where there are first-class victims and second-class victims.” Other conservative Christian evangelical organizations, like the National Religious Broadcasters, have linked hate crimes legislation to efforts by liberals to re-impose the “fairness doctrine”; the NRB recently said that it was “girding itself for a major battle over broadcasting freedoms.” In his warning against an “impending flood…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…d, they are demographically much like the rest of White Americans, working class and middle class with a significant stratum of middle class professionals—professors, lawyers, chiropractors, etc.—as their leaders. And, these are not a string of disconnected organizations sharing only a common set of hatreds. Rather, this is a single movement, with a common set of leaders and interlocking memberships that hold a complete and sometimes sophisticated…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…must admit that a significant proportion of voters, including many working-class voters, switched from voting Democratic in 2020 to voting Republican this year. This has been widely acknowledged, of course, but reducing this fact to a rightward shift in the working class runs the risk of yet again drawing the wrong lessons from an election. A large slice of American voters are notoriously low-information for a variety of reasons: economic pressure…

It’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian

By Joseph Laycock

…whatever religious views she wants, but when she shares those views to her classroom in her capacity as a public school teacher her speech becomes government speech. Her views about what makes a “real” Christian are a confessional position and when she used her position as a government employee to impose those views on others, it undermined the establishment clause. That’s the real issue. The fact that she also offended students and parents is imp…

Hajj Journal: Part of the Process

By Amina Wadud

…isty skit (a hijabi confessing she likes to curse “a lot”), but no working-class, no poor people, no African Americans, and in the end, everything would be molded to “fit” a white middle class A-plus student stereotype. So next time the audience is half my age, I’ll think twice about giving them my last free evening. It’s good we are standing up for ourselves. I guess poor and working-class young Muslim women will eventually make their stand or th…

Sister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf

By Shabana Mir

…m, but the hollow rhetoric barely touched the lives of the upper to middle classes. One morning, a girl in class ridiculed my scarf and said it was frumpy and silly. Another argued that it wasn’t required in Islam. “There’s precious little we can do to be pretty in our silly school uniforms,” another said. “And you want to bring that scarf into the picture.” I got irritated. I was, after all, only 15. “I’m only doing what I’m supposed to do,” I sn…

Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…nservatism that has stoked anger and despair among the left-behind working class. As the Dalai Lama and Arthur Brooks wrote recently, the answer to the despair sweeping through increasingly superfluous working-class communities is both spiritual and temporal. What’s needed, they say, is a concerted effort to “create a wealth of opportunities for meaningful work, so that everyone who is capable of contributing can do so.” Telling people “you should…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…ushed through the NAFTA and WTO agreements even though millions of working-class Democrats and thousands of US manufacturing centers were cruelly slaughtered along the way. That carnage is by now very well documented. With a handful of exceptions, neither Mexican workers nor US workers received any benefits at all from the NAFTA, whereas a very significant part of our current immigration problem stems from its devastating and crippling effects ins…