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5 Reasons Why the GOP Push to Defund Planned Parenthood Won’t Go Away

By Sarah Posner

…and fundraising in light of the failure to push the rider through in this round. 2. The Tea Party and social conservatives are not separate parts of the Republican leadership, Republican majority, or the Republican base. Much of the news coverage of the budget showdown last week depicted two competing parts of the Republican House: Tea Partiers who wanted deeper cuts in government spending, and social conservatives whose principal goal was defund…

The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…as it does a rousing rendition of the Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger ditty “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave.” Yet “On a Note of Triumph” was also, in its own idiosyncratic way, deeply religious, making use of the rhythms of liturgy and a self-consciously biblical tone, which was made all the more surprising by the fact that Corwin was hardly a religious man. A Boston-born Jew of Hungarian and Russian descent, he had spent Friday evenings in his yout…

Tim Tebow, Protestant Saint

By Sean S. O'Neil

…e selected in the first round of the NFL draft. He was chosen in the first round anyway. Still, the coach, Josh McDaniel, was fired after Tebow’s rookie season and Tebow was unceremoniously benched under the helm of current coach, John Fox, for the first four games of Tebow’s second season; that is, until Fox finally seemed to relent to unyielding cries from the Tebow-faithful in Denver. Fox inserted Tebow in the second half of their fourth game a…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…arty, al-Nour, are doing quite well. (Jadaliyya has a great and exhaustive round-up, with all the detail you ever wanted). There will be three rounds of voting for the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament, and these results so far only reflect the first round. There will be separate procedures for the upper house and for president. And, of course, Egypt is still under the control of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF); protesters conv…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…control movement should emphasize that such reform movements are a glorious American tradition. To call all Americans to change their ways, while using the levers of government to encourage them, is deeply American. Let the call sound throughout the land: Owners of assault rifles, high-capacity ammunition magazines, and all guns with inadequate safety locks; sellers of guns who evade or ignore rigorous background checks; parents who fail to keep t…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…pular imagination. In the Baton Rouge video, the good guy with a gun fires round after round into the chest of Alton Sterling, an adversary who’s pinned to the ground. In St. Paul, the jittery good guy with a gun, a rising tone of panic in his voice, stubbornly points his weapon at Philando Castile, a man slumped in a car seat who’s clearly not long for this world. In Dallas, the good guys forsake their guns entirely, sending a whirring bomb-dispo…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…the law would: “declare an AR-15 style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56x45mm NATO round to be the National Gun of the United States.” The bill was introduced by Moore, and has the support of Santos and Lauren Boebert (who famously owned “Shooters,” a restaurant where servers openly carried guns). Santos, who’s been exposed as a fraud and a con-man, recently proclaimed his love of the AR-15: “This is a gun manufactured in the Uni…

The Trumpocalypse: One Year Down, 999 to Go

By Jonathan Malesic

…o. It was made by Joey Del Signore, a non-church-going Catholic who offers round after round of excuses for Trump’s behavior. He then says people at his wife’s church think Barack Obama is the antichrist. If that’s true, then Trump is Christ, right? Del Signore, who’s 61, adds, “I think we’re going to see the end of the world in our generation.” I don’t think that’s really a theological statement. I think it’s an expression of short-sighted, resen…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…. I’ve done my mock packing. What is mock packing, you ask? Well, for this trip I have almost all new clothes, and I need to make sure they are sufficient for what I am about to undertake. So I tried on everything, including gifts from others. I’ve had to discard one pair of pants a gift from a friend in Indonesia, cause they are just too short on the waist and the leg (I am like a giant compared to the average Indonesian). Also those nifty dresse…

Wiesel to Romney: Stop LDS Baptisms of Holocaust Victims

By Joanna Brooks

…. (Wiesel’s name was also located in the LDS genealogical database by Salt Lake City-based watchdog Helen Radkey, but Church officials clarified that the names of Mr. Wiesel and his relatives were never submitted for baptism.) This post has been updated – Eds These incidents have reignited a long-simmering controversy over the LDS practice of baptism for the dead. Mormons view posthumous baptism as a demonstration of care and respect for ancestors…