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Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…-Semitic commentary to be withheld in Germany while still available in the United States, where it may not specifically violate any laws (other than the laws of decency). To ensure this policy is applied diligently, only authorized actors like law enforcement or government agencies are allowed to submit CWC requests. You can imagine the potential difficulty of maneuvering within this system when dealing with a country like Syria (where ISIS is str…

Is Torture Utilitarian?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lief” alone ought not constitute the basis of Department of Defense or CIA policy decisions. This much we should have learned from our reliance on faulty intelligence in the lead-up to our second military invasion of Iraq. Defenders of the policy insist that waterboarding works, that we got real (the operative word is “actionable”) intelligence we wouldn’t have obtained any other way. Opponents of the policy argue that there is no solid evidence t…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…n democracy might look like. In that sense, it’s not so different from the United States. Our politicians tend to issue strong statements, but generally policy continues as it always has. We hear Newt Gingrich say all sorts of things about Saudi Arabia, but do we really think that if Newt Gingrich was in power he would suddenly drop that alliance? The Brotherhood’s position on foreign policy reflects to some degree a wider Arab and Muslim opinion…

Religious Liberty…For Bishops

By Tom Davis

…he New York Protestant Council. The Diocese of New York fought to keep the policy as it was. After a 4 month fight, the Board of Hospitals agreed to change the policy, meaning that birth control would be allowed in the public hospitals of New York City. There were many fights like that. But in this current controversy, only one religious voice is being heard despite the fact that, on the 8th of February, 20 representatives of protestant and Jewish…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…ss who report on and analyze matters pertaining to Israel and U.S. foreign policy in a way not officially sanctioned as “pro-Israel” by the neoconservative foreign policy establishment, Block urged a conservative listserv to “amplify” the story as portraying the bloggers as anti-Semites. Smith’s story painted Media Matters blogger M.J. Rosenberg, himself a former AIPAC staffer, and bloggers at the Center for American Progress, including Matt Duss,…

Old Politics, New Bedfellows: The Olson/Boies Challenge to Prop. 8

By Jesse Lava

…no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Or, heck, that financial policy should be based on real-life numbers rather than the numbers that banks would like to pretend are real. We are at a point where it’s no longer clear that a large, vibrant conservative movement exists outside of policy areas that are supposed transcend conventional political divides. The constellation of interests that now define conservatism include being anti-scienc…

RDPulpit: They Plug Up Their Ears With Bible Verses

By Eric Reitan

…values cannot justify legal discrimination against gays and lesbians. Is a policy of restricting civil marriage rights to heterosexual couples discriminatory? If we accept the prevailing research conclusions from social and behavioral scientists, then the answer is yes. If you’re gay or lesbian, it’s because of a fixed sexual orientation that you didn’t choose and cannot ordinarily change. And your sexual orientation determines with whom you can s…

The Bad Religion at the Heart of GOP Healthcare Policy

By Peter Laarman

Even as Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch and putatively face-saving “repeal, then replace” maneuver fails, it’s important to remember that the anti-Obamacare gospel remains firmly in place among True Believers. VP Mike Pence, a “real Christian” in contradistinction to our Sinner in Chief, made the gospel teaching really clear in his speech to the National Retail Federation meeting, given at just about the same time that McConnell’s last gasp was tank…

Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

A new study reveals the scope of psychological damage done by Indiana’s 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning Hoosiers. Although the study, led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s Center for LGBT Health Research, stops short of suggesting Indiana’s law directly caused LGBQ people to feel physically or mentally unwell, researchers noted that Indiana was the only state…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…dubious poll conducted for the “very highly respected” Center for Security Policy in support of his proposal. While the Center for Security Policy and its president, Frank Gaffney, indeed are respected and promoted in certain circles, in 2011 Gaffney was banished from the Conservative Political Action Conference because American Conservative Union board members considered him a “crazy bigot” who made the tin foil hat charge that the board had been…