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The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp

By John Stoehr

…cal reporting in which a journalist from the Times parachutes into Ohio or Arizona (or wherever) to talk to Donald Trump’s supporters while they’re eating. Most don’t know, or have forgotten, this genre is a result of regime change. After the liberal order established under Roosevelt in the 1930s gave way to the conservative order established under Reagan in the 1980s, a regime in which we are living still, the press corps got into the habit of ex…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…, and even local histories. So I started by reading. Then, I flew to Page, Arizona, and scooted over to Colorado City. That visit was really important. I grew up down a dirt road from the birthplace of Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont. What I’ve loved about LDS history is how site-specific it is: it treats America the way some people treat Israel. There is this procession of sacred sites still held sacred. Colorado City has that same heightened sen…

Immigration and Anti-Immigration in the Book of Mormon-Belt

By Joanna Brooks

…million members. Today, Mormons include both Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant SB 1070, as well as thousands of undocumented Latino immigrants living in the United States. There are now about as many Mormons living in Mexico and Central America as there are in Utah, and worldwide, about 4.5 million Church members are Spanish-speaking. The LDS Church’s strongest growth in the United States is in Latino communities…

Mourning Jenni Rivera: “When a Lady Dies”

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ms of sexual abuse and the rights of single mothers. She spoke out against Arizona’s SB1070 as racist and unjust and was also an advocate for LGBT youth. Jenni Rivera did not just use her fame as a form of self-promotion, but as a platform for populations who are voiceless in the dominant discourse. As news began to emerge about Rivera’s death and memorials began to sprout organically throughout Latino/a neighborhoods here and in Mexico, I could n…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…ble export the lobster as the official state crustacean. The state flag of Arizona contains reference to the state’s copper industry. But state symbol designations can also become deeply partisan. Last year, student-led efforts to have Idaho recognize the Giant Salamander as the state amphibian ran into resistance from legislators who feared the designation might result in “potential federal overreach” in the form of mandated protection for the no…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…There’s a very big one in New York, and there are lots of them throughout Arizona and Nevada and Texas. So for those people out there who want to write a PhD in religion, pick this one: you’re watching in real time the creation and spread of a new global religion primarily due to shifting migration patterns. That’s how Christianity became a global religion: people left the confines of the Roman Empire and took Christianity with them. That’s how I…

Mormon Church Buildings To Go Green

By Joanna Brooks

…mplementation of pilot green building program at five new meetinghouses in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Church officials offered tours of a new environment-friendly chapel late last month in Farmington, Utah. With more than 17,000 buildings around the world—many of them identical down to their industrial carpeting and the art on their Salt Lake City-certified cinder block walls—the Mormon Church has a mighty architectural footprint. If the pilot…

The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America

By Haroon Moghul

…nd thrown into New Orleans’ own Guantanamo Bay. His family, scattered from Arizona to Syria, comes together to recover him, but cannot patch up so easily. Not much solace comes from uniting around an absence. While Zeitoun does return, convinced he can rebuild and renew (in a concluding crescendo that will long be remembered), it seems he does not want—or cannot bring himself to conceive—that we cannot return to our uninjured selves merely by rebu…

Obama’s “Other Worldly” Gaffe

By Ira Chernus

…superficial stereotype of working-class people. If that’s what he did, the Arizona senator did much the same (though his words were reported as a slap at Obama and a defense of the working class). McCain said: During the Great Depression there rose from small towns, rural communities, inner cities, a generation of Americans who fought to save the world from despotism and mass murder, and came home to build the wealthiest, strongest and most genero…

Religious Freedom Extravaganza

By Sarah Posner

…eads show, was with Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson, about the fallout from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of the controversial religious freedom bill there. Matt goes against the grain of much of conservative leadership opinion and argues that the defeat of this bill and others like it is not evidence of persecution of Christians. Indeed he even argues, more broadly, that the persecution narrative is not a winning strategy for conservatives. (Spea…