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

By Michelle Goldberg

…ht deception in its treatment of Gunnar Myrdal, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who, with his wife, Alva Myrdal, championed family planning and pioneered Sweden’s social democracy. In the film, Connie Eller, who is identified only as a “St. Louis community organizer,” but who is actually the founder of Missouri Blacks For Life, discusses Myrdal’s 1944 book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Myrdal, says Eller, “believed t…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…k Times: But in a televised statement, Hazem el-Beblawi, the interim prime minister and a Western-trained economist who had been considered a liberal, cited the Islamists’ supposed stockpiling of weapons and ammunition to argue that the use of force was justified to protect the rights of other citizens. Western-trained! Economist! (Read “non-ideological”; we love to assume economists have no agendas, but for the invisible hand of the market, which…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…facts before us should be sobering enough: Disease and death in this pandemic overwhelmingly afflict communities of color (e.g. despite making up just a third of the state’s population, 70% of the dead in Louisiana have been African American; in Michigan the numbers are 14% and 40% respectively, etc). The crisis has already condemned low-income families to a shocking level of food insecurity, with one-fifth of American kids now at risk of going t…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…hey suffer at the hands of the clergy, and that’s the end. I don’t mean to minimize the significance of either—for so many people, enough really is enough. It’s too painful to go back. What I’m proposing is a struggle, but a necessary one. But their significance can be exaggerated. When progressives leave their counterparts shape the Church more and more as they like it. Some have tried forming alternative Catholic communities, groups that celebra…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…ions should be burdened by having to pay for it. The bishops have been claiming since 2012 that birth control is “ubiquitous and inexpensive” and anyone who wants it can get it without insurance coverage for $10 at Target. And as usual, bishops’ allies on the right jumped right on it. Here’s Sean Hannity back in January on his radio show: Why should Americans be paying the $9 a month for birth control pills that you can get at Wal-Mart? Why shoul…

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

…sugared, preferably at 5 am watching the sun creep up in the sky over the mighty Mississippi. Oh, and that reminds me, no reference to the mighty river that the riverboats ran on either. Sigh. I know it’s only a movie, but movies shape how people, especially children, view the world. In the case of New Orleans and the myriad of cultures it holds, to stint on all of the facets that make New Orleans and Louisiana the wonderful, complex, and sometim…

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

By Kriti Sharma

…ndom Lego arrangements would form a functional figure like Hogwarts or the Millennium Falcon, the chance of something like the Millennium Falcon randomly evolving from a bunch of Legos is so infinitesimally small that it is effectively impossible. Similarly, given how many ways an average protein could be arranged if just randomly assembled from its parts, and given how few of those randomly-assembled variants would actually function, no functiona…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…oral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.” What Pope Francis is doing is walking a tightrope. Instead of pushing dogma, he’s pushing a change in tone, not in substance. Because he is carefully eliding the church’s teaching and focusing on compassion, many liberals and media pundits—including The Advoc…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…t’s particularly true when looking at the religious dimensions of the pandemic. Sure, Novavax might win over some religious vaccine skeptics. But what drives those skeptics in the first place? That’s what I’m really curious about. Addendum: Just after this piece hit mailboxes, Laurie Zoloth published an essay through the University of Chicago’s Sightings newsletter titled “The Great Defiance: Religious Objections and Vaccine Mandates.” Zoloth, who…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…that I’M SURE NOT GONNA PAY ONE CENT FOR IT, even indirectly. With that in mind, I hereby present some budget-friendly tips for misogynists trying to control their urges: 1. Sell plasma! Patricia Heaton says this is a good way to make some spare cash, and she was on a hit TV series. So. 2. Distract yourself! Think of some mysteries to ponder… like the fact that you or someone you know might have Debra Barone’s plasma coursing through their veins…