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How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…stern financial interest over interests rates and free up credit for small businesses and farmers. The Democrats opposed tariffs both as an imposition on the functioning of the free market and as a way to starve the federal government of revenue so it couldn’t do things like expand infrastructure. Throughout much of the 1880s, the Democrats used a series of procedural maneuvers to hamstring Congress, delaying progress on reforms the country needed…

RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

By Mary E. Hunt

…es. At a time in world history when space travel is practically economy or business class, and the Internet allows instant communication, there is something rather quaint, not to mention morally reprehensible, about sending troops anywhere. Don’t people see how ridiculous it is to blow up one another’s children? We need a good open forum on the nature of patriotism, how everyone can give to and receive from their country, not another rehearsal of…

Beck’s Distortions Of It’s A Wonderful Life Mirror His Distortions Of Current Events

By Lauri Lebo

…during the Depression the most hissable villains were grasping bankers and businessmen. From a 1947 FBI internal memo: With regard to the picture “It’s a Wonderful Life”, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a “scrooge-type” so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. In…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…cluded trail, or wear my favorite head covering in public. The price of my ticket in my society seems discounted, on the surface. I need people like Rich to help me understand who is picking up the difference for my discount and what is required of me if I reject that discount to lessen the difference. The price of any identity worth having is high: a profound struggle. Rich encourages me that I will come away from the struggle blessed, with a new…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…the past few decades. Both Pence and Kaine were raised in Midwest, middle-class, observant Irish-Catholic families. Pence started out as a Democrat, voting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, but like many other more conservative-minded Catholics switched alliances to the Republican Party, voting for Ronald Reagan in 1984. The Jesuit-educated Kaine, meanwhile, was attracted to Liberation Theology’s “blending of Catholicism and socialism,” influenced by his…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…t and delight. When a young American calls for non-interference in “their” business because “they” are different, I am relieved and disturbed. I contrast the non-interfering liberal with the large young Midwestern ex-GI in my class years ago: “Saddam is the Antichrist, and we’ve got to go in and fight him,” he told me solemnly. So I like the tune of non-interference. A little. In relative terms. But the background harmony assumed total difference….

Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

By Peter Laarman

…as the Republicans are? This is moral insanity. Pour shame on the rentier class: This is harder, but our class criminals like to be able to hide out. Religious leaders who hunger for justice should steel themselves to track them down, confront them, and let them answer for themselves. This is not about attacking wealth per se but about challenging irresponsible wealth that has no trace of neighborliness in it. Religious leaders could take some ti…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…st Amendment’s Establishment Clause by permitting religion to be taught in class, and for failing to protect their son. Federal law allows such civil liberties cases to be filed anonymously. Freshwater has filed a countersuit, citing defamation of character. In July, the school board suspended Freshwater without pay based on the investigatory report, saying he had misused the electrical device, taught religion in his science class, and failed to f…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…nes, known to all Americans and read by many—especially in airports. On my flight to Istanbul, Time was available in the first airport lounge, Newsweek in the second. Against a backdrop of shouting mobs, smoke and fire, Time’s headline reads: THE AGENTS OF OUTRAGE An embassy attacked. Diplomats murdered. The new calculus of violence against America. Published on September 13, its author is Bobby Ghosh, senior editor for Time International. Then, f…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…$119.1 billion annually. Hannah Harris Green reports on the ongoing legal flight of LGBT refugees, taking note of a recent decision by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit that an immigration judge had erred in refusing to acknowledge an asylum seeker’s transgender identity. The article touches on those seeking asylum in Canada, Australia, and Europe. An excerpt: This decision means that transgender immigrants who fight their cases in the…