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The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…rk of every kind except direct political action. Even with depleted social policy and outreach organizations, liberal Protestant denominations continue to address issues pertaining to war, intervention, and foreign policy; debt relief, foreign aid, and economic development; white supremacism, racial justice, and affirmative action; women’s rights, gay and lesbian issues, reproductive rights, and child welfare; acid rain, ozone depletion, bio-diver…

Making Sex Costly… In More Ways Than One

By Daniel Schultz

…to have a say over what’s covered and what’s not for their children.” The policy is far from a done deal either way, Goldstein reports. As federal bureaucrats mull over the best policy, interest groups from both sides of the question will do their best to lobby them, which, as Goldstein points out, is a much more difficult proposition than twisting the arms of elected officials. But it’s difficult not to agree with Amanda Marcotte on this one: In…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…se of the commons. Over the past 30 years we have already seen many public policy moves to pluck some potentially successful students from the flames of unpromising school environments: e.g., the school voucher movement, the (related) strong and continuing effort to capture public funds for parochial education, certain strands within the charter school movement, and George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” initiative. What no one likes to admit is…

Law Prof: Obama Under No Obligation to Appeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ppeal and why he doesn’t just use his executive powers to end the military policy, Obama said, “This is not a situation in which with the stroke of a pen I can simply end the policy unilaterally. … I can’t simply ignore laws that are out there.” But, Obama has far more choice in these matters than he seems to be letting on. For one, his administration had no legal obligation to appeal the DADT ruling. They could have simply let it stand and become…

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n nationalist Sen. Ted Cruz at an event hosted by the Council for National Policy, a shadowy group that pushes the Christian nationalist agenda to which Bullard is so desperately devoted. Promoted a biblical voting guide that suggests his god and his Bible want you to vote Republican. Written about Trump taking the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference—scribblings that have the feel of a teeny-bopper seeing her teen heartthr…

A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Harris will kill as many of their children as they can.” So why, if their policy positions are so similar—both ran in close elections in Swing States, both were boosted by Peter Thiel’s millions—did Vance win and Masters lose? There is, of course, no singular explanation. And while both Arizona and Ohio have been framed as swing states, the conditions on the ground were quite different for Masters and Vance: Trump had won Ohio in 2016 and 2020. A…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…em as private values are often resistant to making them a basis for public policy. But there’s no hypocrisy in promoting the policies we support with language that can engage more conservative voters. Don’t we really believe that a major policy shift to the left would make society more orderly? True, most of us don’t endorse hierarchies of any kind. But there’s plenty of evidence (which Haidt ignores) that hierarchy is mostly a means to an end for…

What to Make of ‘Life at Any Cost’ Trump Voters in Light of the Fact That Nobody Actually Believes That

By Michael Rea

…sn’t all we might hope for in a leader; but, while character is important, policy matters more—especially in the short term. And the most commonly cited policy consideration has been the “protection of life.” I’ve had more conversations than I can count with people who’ve argued that, when one considers the sheer number of “fetal lives” that would be saved by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, whatever travails Trump has imposed upon our nation pale…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…the context of the exponential growth of civilian-owned technologies, the change in policy isn’t quite as surprising. Social media, cell phones, video, and drone technologies make the sighting and the capture of images of UAPs ubiquitous and unregulated. If, as the report suggests, there’s an element of potential threat to national security concerning UAP sightings, it would be important for the military to regulate information regarding sighting…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…l “bad ecumenism.” Such efforts are coordinated with the Kremlin’s foreign policy, which seeks to foster relationships with anti-democratic forces outside Russia. While Moscow made similar efforts during Soviet times, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rebranded post-Soviet Russia into the global standard bearer for “traditional values conservatism,” and in this capacity attracts primarily right-wing fellow travelers. On the one hand, this polic…