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From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…in their rage over the verdict rendered by a jury of Donald Trump’s peers. International allies have been quick to condemn the verdict, proclaim Trump’s innocence, and cast the trial as a political hit job. Among those professing their support for Donald Trump were Austrian and leader of the far-right “Identitarian” movement Martin Sellner (who’s called for mass deportations in Germany), right-wing UK politician Nigel Farage, former Brazilian Prim…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…dle to the late 20th century and into the present, and with my training in international politics and international relations, I also study the political economy of US higher education through how people think about globalization. African anti-colonial theory has always been an amazing source of insight and I’m especially compelled by the immediacy of the understanding that ideas are important because they help you change the world. Their anticolo…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…ism, made comments about national security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In many ways, his speech mirrored the president’s. In others, it showed how deeply ingrained the old narrative of the Islamist boogeyman is. Brennan, in introducing the National Security Strategy, said: The president’s strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not “terrorism” because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is no…

Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable

By Noah Berlatsky

…rete action. Politicians promise aid; celebrities encourage donations, and international agencies organize to help. Media attention can generate huge amounts of concrete assistance: following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, international donors pledged $854 million in aid to the United States. The United Arab Emirates promised cash and oil. Cuba offered to send 1,100 doctors. Italy sent medical supplies. So far so good. The United States did not accept…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…during Capitol Siege,” NPR, July 22, 2022. [15] “Varieties of Democracy,” International Democracy Community. The International Democracy Community describes electoral democracy as a baseline for other, more expansive types of democracy. A country can be defined as an electoral democracy if it has competitive elections. A liberal democracy, by contrast, holds competitive elections and protects individual rights to both prevent the “tyranny of the…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…s engaging in interracial (not interfaith) cooperation with members of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis, an indigenous African American form of Judaism. While some of its members and clergy prefer the nomenclature “Israelite” or “Hebrew Israelite” over “Jewish,” there’s no denying that this community of believers regards itself as observing the tenets of rabbinic Judaism—albeit in their culturally specific manner. For a moment I suspend…

New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…Pasadena, California and International Chancellor of Wagner University, an international network of apostolic training centers tasked with carrying on the vision of NAR founder C. Peter Wagner, declared at a rally that the election was “stolen” in “the most egregious fraud.” According to a report by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Ahn continued, “[W]e’re going to throw Jezebel out and Jeh…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…ns and have made their intentions clear. “As we grow,” they declared, “the number of services around the state and nation will continue to grow.” Peters and Shea both live in the small world of “abortion abolitionists,” a movement that views anything short of criminalization, such as restrictions on access, as “regulating murder.” This movement is growing and getting noticed for the introduction of abortion abolition legislation in six states. She…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…tial irregular ordination by a male bishop in 2002. While these women (who number about 50 priests and five bishops) have been excommunicated, they are living proof that the institutional church has only the power we give it. They go about the business of ministry and service with skill and good grace. Increasingly, Buddhist women have been seeking full ordination within the various branches of Buddhism. In Korea, Taiwan, and China, Buddhist nuns…

My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…ernational Women’s Day in the Vatican different from virtually every other International Women’s Day in the Vatican? It isn’t. Women still have no power to make and implement decisions. The proof is painful, but clear. For the past four years on March 8th, Voices of Faith (VoF), a project of the Liechtenstein-based Fidel Götz Foundation, has held a symposium on women inside the Vatican. Chantal Götz is the project’s director. This year, the theme…