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The Republicans’ Dangerous Quest to End Nonexistent Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…er money — to pay for an abortion, and would impose tax penalties on small business which provide health insurance to their employees, if the insurance includes abortion coverage. In other words, not only does the bill restrict access to abortion, and may ultimately cause insurance companies to drop abortion coverage altogether, it would result in higher taxes for women and their families, as well as small business who provide health coverage to t…

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

…made Trump” campaign ad. Only now Trump has gotten directly into the Bible business, officially endorsing and profiting from the “God Bless the USA Bible.” As Karen Park notes here on RD, apart from a King James translation Bible in an “easy-to-read” format, the “God Bless the USA Bible” (GBUSA) also includes: the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and The Pledge of Allegiance. Of course, the GBUSA isn’t the firs…

4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r example, one’s adult daughter’s sexual history is not entirely one’s own business. (In fact, maybe one’s teenage daughter’s sexual behavior isn’t entirely one’s own business, at least not to the point of embarrassing her and her boyfriend by demanding they sign an explicit written contract detailing which behaviors are off-limits. [cough] VICTORIA! [/cough]) Going by the second definition, Teryn, the 30-year-old Koloff daughter, has the healthie…

Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ly and lead happier lives. On the other hand, capitalist institutions like businesses and corporations are constantly looking for ways to increase productivity and workflow, and “brain optimization” is a great way to get more work for the same pay. In study after study, meditation is getting drawn into both of these goals. Perhaps the lotus position is coming to a training video near you. In related news, I have a business idea for meditation cush…

Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

By Spencer Dew

…ine not as an exemplar of righteous conduct but as an example of “winning” business practices and national self-interest. Throughout his campaign, Trump used three rhetorical approaches: plain spoken statements which are later beclouded by claims that he was only joking, statements delineating a nostalgic struggle to reclaim American pride and safety and greatness from various coded or explicit threats, and vague declarations that derive meaning f…

New Report: White Evangelicals are America’s Most Anti-Trans Demographic, But Encouraging Data Overall

By Chrissy Stroop

…mptions, the report notes that most Americans (63%) “oppose allowing small business owners to refuse service to LGBTQ people if doing so violates their religious beliefs.” By contrast, per PRRI: “white evangelical Protestants remain the only major religious group in which a majority favors religiously based service refusals, and their support for these exemptions is increasing. A majority of white evangelical Protestants (62%) say that they suppor…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ate that we ought to look to to build our life upon and our family and our business and our civil society. That’s where the people who founded America looked.” According to its Web site, “The Scriptures contain a theology of the family, the church, and the state. Principles in God’s written Word that relate to civil government, politics, economics, and education are timeless and universally useful for the benefit of any culture on Earth today.” Th…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…than take to Facebook and argue with Christians who had no clue about the business of movies but very, very firm ideas about how things should be done. Yet there he was, typing comments on an open thread on the film’s official Facebook page, pleading with people to give the movie a chance. It was exasperating. He was getting testy. Lalonde, who has been a believer in evangelical movies since he saw his first rapture movie as a kid in a church bas…

Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade

By Nathan Schneider

…tive Pentagon and State Department contracts meant that, now a free-market businessman in his own right, Erik Prince had come full circle. Prince’s freedom, however, may not last. On August 4, Jeremy Scahill reported in The Nation that the night before, a pair of anonymous former Blackwater employees had filed sworn affidavits (John Doe #1 and #2) against Prince and his company in a Virginia federal court. Neither informant feels at liberty to rev…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…of Infernal Names, now secularized, grows ever longer: Big Government, Big Business, Big Pharma, Big Food. These are complex systems, of course—too complex to serve as satisfying scapegoats. But through the alchemy of capital letters we transform them into fairy-tale caricatures of corruption and deceit, villains that help to make sense of it all. My own Satan has always been Big Business. For many years, I nurtured a hatred of profit-driven corpo…