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Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

…Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2017, told CNN’s Daniel Burke that this suggests the prosecutors could be planning a racketeering case against Church leaders: “Human trafficking, child pornography, the Mann Act—any of these could be the underlying crimes for RICO.” The leveling of criminal conspiracy charges against members of the Catholic hierarchy would be a stunning denouement for men who, until recently, regular…

Bill Nye Video Riles Creationists

By Evan Derkacz

…points, though frankly it’s embarrassing. Nye then clarified his point on CNN, noting that in the original Big Think video above he was “talking about the use of tax dollars for science education”; that it’s fine to teach your kids whatever you want, so long as you don’t call it science and you don’t use tax dollars to do it. Great! True! But it’s hard to shake the thought that this is probably the best thing that’s happened to AiG’s fundraising…

Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…merican children still labeling a Black doll “bad.” Both ABC, in 2009, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2010, replicated the doll test for a national audience. The results of the contemporary test were used to discuss the effects of living in a racist society on Black children even with an abundance of Black Santas, Black dolls, diverse television programing, and a Black president. I’m not arguing for the elimination of Black Santa, or Wakandan-inspir…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…the BornAliveTruth website. In addition to coverage in the New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press, the organization’s launch received blanket coverage from such likeminded sites as Conservative Grapevine, Catholic News Service, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Stop the ACLU, OneNewsNow and many more. The main donor to BornAliveTruth, a 527—an organization allowed to raise money from individuals in unlimited amounts—is Raymond Ruddy, who is described…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just won re-election in convincing fashion over GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Carville who co-authored the 2008 book 40 More Years: How Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation seemed prophetic as he predicted a new Democratic majority that would dominate national politics. He cited the GOP reliance on a shrinking white male voter base to remain competitive in preside…

Senate Health Care Bill Satisfies Pro-Choice Legislators on Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…Democrats would support Stupak Amendment restrictions in the Senate bill. CNN has reported that Sen. Nelson would be satisfied with the less restrictive provisions of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill. Sen. Casey also issued a statement which some reports construed as a retreat from the Stupak Amendment. However, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette politics blog “Early Returns” on Monday published a statement from Casey spokesman Larry Smar…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…asked if there had been any “anti-Semitic acts” in the past against Sikhs; CNN’s Don Lemon wondered if Sikhs have “traditional enemies,” or if the shooter had a “beef with the Sikhs”; a local Wisconsin station reported that the religion is “based in northern Italy.” Corrective guidelines were immediately issued by the Asian American Journalists’ Association. But the damage was done. However the media handle it, scholars of religion have long argue…

“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn

By Kaya Oakes

…ally and collectively. And each of those people is qualified to talk about how they live that faith, whether they do so in the op-ed column of the Times, at a potluck, in the middle of the desert, on CNN, or here on RD. It’s when either side tells the other to shut up that the problem starts. The Pope has asked us to try to listen to one another. Maybe we can start there….

Republicans for Choice Chair: Akin “Helpful for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…r than delegates to have a copy, and that the draft was still in progress. CNN reported this morning that the Committee was preparing “tough” anti-abortion language, but Stone said, as she was hurriedly returning to theCommittee meetings, “it could have been worse,” adding, however, “it could have been better.” The last draft that Stone saw, she told me, did not identify a human life amendment by name, and did not designate a particular version of…

9/11 and Islamophobia

By Hussein Rashid

…RD blogger and Associate Editor Hussein Rashid was on CNN recently to discuss the 9th anniversary of 9/11. The conversation focused on Islamophobia, Muslim belonging in America, and Park51: …