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Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…imarily operates from that particular ideological lineage. In an interview with Jewish Currents, scholar of Hamas Tareq Baconi says we must “push back against any effort to try to suggest this was driven by antisemitism, because doing that also completely erases any motivation that imprisoned people might have in breaking out of their prison.” It would be absurd, in other words, to ignore such an obvious motivation—like concluding that a woman who…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ge control mode (or has attempted to be) since the Alabama ruling dropped, with Florida legislators delaying a fetal personhood bill for fear of public backlash. Republicans like Mike Johnson and Nancy Mace publicly declared their support of IVF—even though they, in many cases, personally tried to advance legislation that would outlaw it. Nikki Haley managed to both profess that “embryos are babies” and that IVF should be legal—a position that mak…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…n is on the offensive once again, waging a campaign in counties they think will swing the 2024 presidential election. The campaign has two main elements. One is led by Apostle Lance Wallnau, whose campaign is branded as The Courage Tour, while the other is led by a Trumpian think tank, the America First Policy Institute and its political action arm, America Policy Works. The latter’s project has disappeared from public view and may have gone steal…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t when you are truly alone. And what would you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on, through all the pain, and rise again? That will be the defining question of your life. And I think you already know the answer, and that’s why we’re all here. A shoe is just a shoe until somebody steps into it. Then it has meaning. The rest of us just want a chance to touch that greatness. We need you in these shoes not so you have meaning in your life, bu…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…so maybe Mrs. Alito’s way of coping with neighborhood strife is to hoist a flag flown by insurrectionists. Could it be true? Yes. But it is incredibly unlikely—just as unlikely as misogynist-in-chief Sam Alito allowing his wife to decide which flag is flown for days at his house, openly supporting the insurrection. The story would be wild enough if it ended there—and grounds for Democrats to impeach the man. After all, here’s a Supreme Court Justi…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…roves to be a potential breeding ground for aggrievement, which then takes wilder and wilder turns to reach QAnon. But the primary culprits are inevitably Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms, where, Cook writes, “[families felt their] shared reality began to fracture.” The vulnerability of old people and young children to social media features clearly, as those populations often don’t have the resilience or awareness to engage with…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…lso limited. I’m working with some of my guides to develop what’s called a WisePhone, and it’s smarter than a smartphone. What are some of the features of the WisePhone? You won’t lose it anymore because it won’t be influenced by gravity, so it won’t fall down the cracks of your couch. It will also be able to tweet or send out pictures via Instagram of you doing yoga that you didn’t actually do. It can take a single frame of you doing a downward d…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…ology” would prevent his fellow evangelicals from jumping on the bandwagon with the kinds of wild conspiracy theories that are widespread among them. Meanwhile, George Barna, who runs his own conservative Christian polling outfit, recently agreed with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (an SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group), on the solution to America’s “spiritual deficiency”: rather than discuss politics overtly, churches…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…doing. Lena’s experience coming out to friends shared a similar sentiment with Ted’s narrative: I have lost contact with an entire friend group of 10 years. I simply stopped contacting them and not a single one of them has reached out to me either by phone or Facebook to see how I am. There were a good 5 people in that friend group that I thought I was very close to, but since I stopped attending Church events, none of them have contacted me thou…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e a reality as long as she is in office. Ms. Merkel governs in partnership with the left-wing Social Democrats, who support marriage equality, but in populous Bavaria the conservative wing of the coalition is represented by the C.D.U.’s sister party, the Christian Social Union, which strongly celebrates its closeness to the Roman Catholic faith, the church and its religious customs. At the same time, the party is drifting ever further to the right…