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Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization

By Randall Balmer

…ager for attention. The puppy piddled in the corner more than once, taking cheap shots at political adversaries (including McCain campaign apparatchiks) and using the annoying, sophomoric reference to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat” Party. But Going Rogue was not unpleasant. The second book in the Sarah Palin œuvre, however, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, crosses the line from cute puppy bouncing on his back legs…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…system which relies heavily on the transnational availability of abundant, cheap and pliant labor. The task, then, is to design an immigration policy that addresses the demographic, ecological, economic and cultural needs and limits of this community we call America. This community has historically been guided by the values of inclusiveness, egalitarianism, and pluralism, even if it has not always lived up to these high ideals. A new immigration l…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…aders caught up in sex scandals, and most commentators predicted this same cheap grace for Falwell when he was recently forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty after posting a picture of himself with his pants unzipped, his arm around the waist of a similarly (un)dressed woman who was not his wife, and a glass of something that looked suspiciously like alcohol in his hand. According to two experts on evangelicals and gender, how…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: The Immigration Impasse

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…e in effect subsidized the expansion of the American economy through their cheap labor, the provisions in the bill allowing for a path to legalization were hard to defend. Into this vacuum come restrictionist voices that frame the issue in purely individualistic, ahistoric terms: hordes of immigrants are coming in, willfully breaking our laws, selfishly taking advantage of this country’s freedoms and resources. Here the word “illegal” becomes a ra…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…Undeniable is a book for believers—those who are already troubled in some way by evolutionary theory and the perceived threat it poses to the origin of life from God. He calls this audience together conspiratorially, creating a wise us and a deluded them. “If you and I really are after the truth, we can’t follow them,” Axe tells his readers. “You and I may be repelled by the food on their plates [i.e. evolutionary explanation], having reasoned th…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…ofile of Karmapa, albeit to an unwelcome level. It has also formally instantiated him into the politics of India, China and Tibet, something, which the Karmapas in the past have avoided. His predecessor the 16th Karmapa, who passed away in 1981, preferred to remain that way. However, given the prospective role—which actually now looks more and more like an obligation—that this Karmapa could play going forward, this latest incident may have served…

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

…een in search of frog legs are depicted with no teeth, barefoot, and dumb. Way to go Disney, you just basically called every Cajun a coonass without saying it. The animals and insects don’t fare much better. Louis is a trumpet-playing alligator who just wants to be human. Really, Disney, Louis? Really? Surely you could have given him another name besides the name of the famous New Orleans trumpet player Louis Armstrong. Ray is a big bottomed, snag…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…o win and someone will have to lose. I mean this quite literally. The only way to have meaningful gun control will be to vote people out of office. The popular cry is to have enough moral courage and political will to take guns off the streets. The latter certainly, but I’m not concerned with the former. A venal majority will do just fine. Until the numbers are there, moral or otherwise, we will continue to repeat the sin of senseless bloodshed. T…

Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…ast two decades, more than 1.4 million people moved to Nevada in search of cheap housing and boom-time fueled hospitality, tourism, and construction jobs, more than doubling the state’s population. Now, those speculation-and-spending fueled good times are gone. That volatility does not treat mild-mannered Mormon politicians well: be they Reids, or Romneys. Just last week, Jan Shipps, a longtime scholar and canny observer of Mormon experience, wage…

Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

…vement. Maafa 21 quotes descriptions of the mindsets of white racists in a way that implies that they’re Myrdal’s own views. It’s an ugly trick, and a mendacious one. There are, of course, very good reasons for minorities to be suspicious of population control. Black people have indeed been subject to involuntary sterilization and reproductive coercion. Maafa 21 recapitulates anti-contraception arguments made by male Black Power leaders in the 196…