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Why Running Left and Governing Right Never Works

By Peter Laarman

…imes financial reporter Binyamin Appelbaum was the featured guest on Fresh Air last night, and this particular show really was a breath of fresh air. The youthful Binyamin explained exactly how the big banks beat back progressive reform in the 2,300-page bill the President just signed into law. The banks and their army of lobbyists made sure that the timid approach of this Goldman-dominated White House—an approach amounting to “keep the current sy…

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition that Includes 19th Century Travel Writing

By Adam Yaghi

…urned into, in the words of British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, “an open-air graveyard.” This is the same Gaza that drew the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier thousands of miles to support a “medieval-style siege” of the tiny enclave following October 7, and invited countless responses as to what to do with it. Jared Kushner, for example, prefers to see Israel “move the people out” of the “very valuable” yet underdeveloped “Gaza waterfront pro…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…air into which they pour that waste associated with their production. The air is “owned” by all of us. So if the company is not required to repair the damage caused by its production process, in a sense we are subsidizing the production cost of whatever they make. Often what is framed as a choice between the free market and socialism is neither. Net Neutrality prohibits ISPs from charging for internet service based on usage. This seems straightfo…

Smelling the Sacred: Better (Lived) Religion Through Chemistry

By Donovan Schaefer

…of noises and smells. They may also change the chemical composition of the air. A movie theater, for example, contains more than flickering images and surround sound. It also contains a whole cocktail of chemicals released by our bodies, creating a kind of localized atmosphere that human beings may even be able to sense. In a crowded theater, bodies release chemicals related to respiration and muscular agitation, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and i…

Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…eheading ISIS captives, have themselves been killed by target strikes. The number of young people volunteering to join the ISIS forces have dwindled, and scores, perhaps hundreds, have been trying to return home, weary of being used as cannon fodder. ISIS, it appears, is on a downward slide. But perhaps this is precisely what explains the Paris attacks. ISIS is desperate. It needs a victory, a vivid show of force to bolster the morale of its suppo…

Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…e them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. (1:29–30; New Revised Standard Version) Notice: Not only are other animals blessed and commanded to thrive independent of humans; humans and animals alike are told by God to eat plants, not other animals. This is a strictly vegeta…

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…. She is known in the comics world for her graphic novel Cairo, her series Air, and for penning several issues of Superman. Unlike Naif al-Mutawa’s wonderful series The 99, her characters were set in fantastical worlds where their religious identification was not ambiguous, but were also not necessarily essential to the story. In other words, her characters were people who happened to be Muslim, normalizing Muslim presence in American popular cult…

A Republican House Will Launch “Witch Hunt” on Science

By Lauri Lebo

…administration’s environmental policies, as well as on scientists who link air pollution to climate change. The GOP’s fire will be concentrated especially on the administration’s efforts to use the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority over air pollution to tighten emissions controls on coal, oil and other carbon fuels that scientists say contribute to global warming. The article explains that Republican leaders will use a litany of congress…

Perry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote

By Sarah Posner

…Ames straw poll, is taking place in Iowa. Surely he wants to suck all the air out of Michele Bachmann’s air-conditioned tent. With Bachmann generating the most excitement among voters in Iowa, Perry appears to be her primary rival for the coveted conservative Christian vote. And that raises the question: aside from his prayerfest, wildly well-received by the evangelical punditry, what does he have that she doesn’t? The big buzz today—apart from P…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…nn Beck is one of the most vitriolic, and – with more than 800 hours of on-air time a year – the most visible. His portrayal of Soros today as the “Puppet Master,” as the special was called, evokes anti-Semitic stereotypes from the “devaluer of many currencies” to “advocate for one world government” from “anti-American” to “thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us.” Beck’s words have consequences. They advance a world view that ultimately places Je…