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RD10Q: How the Democrats lost the Catholic vote

By Michael Sean Winters

…e the book? The title is perfect. I would not change it for all the tea in China. How do you feel about the cover? Hate it. I wanted a picture of JFK with nuns in full habit. We forget how greatly the world has changed in 50 years and there is nothing like seeing a nun in full habit to remind us. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Someday I would like to write about the anti-Catholicism of the Founding Fathers. My…

Nxivm Scam Is Dead, but ‘Brainwashing’ Pseudoscience Lives On

By James T. Richardson

…tofore unknown and horrific techniques were being used against citizens in China with the takeover by the Chinese Communist Party. That was not true, and what happened there, and with a few GIs in Korea who refused to be repatriated for a time after the Korean War ended, is easily explicable using well-known concepts and processes from sociology and social psychology. No magical black box of “brainwashing” is needed. It took a while for courts and…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…my own reporting about The Family, which nobody gave a damn about until a number of Family members started getting caught in affairs. You know, did they care [that The Family was] providing lists of communists to Suharto for the genocide? Or about total war in Somalia? I remember a producer saying to me, and I kid you not: “What’s a Somalia?” What’s a Somalia? But! Oh, he had sex with someone he wasn’t married to! Who? Tell us more! We all have t…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…liners rallied thousands of people to protest outside the legislature. The China Post reports that protesters are demanding a referendum even though recent polls have shown majority support for marriage equality: The rally was organized by Alliance of Taiwan Religious Groups for the Protection of Family (護家盟), a hard-line conservative group known for fighting to stop the legalization of gay marriage. The demonstrators, numbering in their thousands…

Ask a Muslim: No, Dear Reader, Sex-Obsession Isn’t Confined to Muslim Nations

By Haroon Moghul

…nt for monarchy just as one could democracy. Which prevails depends on any number of factors—but Islam does not contain a political system. Yes, some Muslims believe it does, but so what? Some Christians believe Vladimir Putin is a good leader. Others believe the war on Iraq was righteous. Some want to recognize gay marriage. Some practice plural marriage. Nobody agrees on anything, even though, half the time, they’re using the same texts and invo…

The End of My Line: It’s Okay to Embrace The ‘Covid Baby Bust’

By Monica Byrne

…here were seven girls and three boys. The columns included: “Job-to-Be,” “Hair Color,” “Hair Type,” and “Eye Color.” I even drew their pictures on index cards (though curiously, I only made portraits of the girls). Etheria Latifah had straight black hair and violet eyes, and worked as a cosmologist. Ilúvatar Mia was a professional swimmer with a blonde bob. Elbereth Ajenta was a dancer with green eyes. They were all spaced one year apart. My older…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…ia, in which the U.N. is blocked from acting decisively because Russia and China will use their vetoes against any action that imperils Assad, President Obama should call a conclave of the world’s other countries, all of them, and let them together decide on what should be done with regard to saving the people of Syria from its rogue regime. The specific use of chemical weapons should be referred to the World Court for possible trial of whoever is…

It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Climate Chaos: Lessons from COP22

By Donna Schaper

…fants learning to walk—or as people who live most of their lives in wheelchairs behave when they begin to motor on their own again. My friend, who lives in a chair, describes walking as “continuous, controlled, forward stumble.” She also talks about what her rehab is like: “if you’ve ever had to do balancing exercises to improve your balance, they deliberately put you on things that cause you to ‘stumble’ so you can maintain some control, thus kee…

Breivik Sought to Create ‘Mirror Universe’ of EU

By Haroon Moghul

…ddle classes while empowering their counterparts in places like Turkey and China. The same process is at work; if even it produces different results. The same truth holds for radical violence, whether Muslim or Christian. Terrorism preys on the weaknesses of the global system. But more than that, terrorism—in its current form—is inseparable from globalization. Just as transnational connections enable ever faster movement of goods and services, so…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…ases, the face must be visible from the lower chin to the forehead. The affair raises questions that go beyond the jokey “church”—questions with which every society must grapple: What is religious freedom? Does it entitle some people to special protection under the law, and if so, which people? We can persist in drawing increasingly arbitrary lines between Rastafarian and Pastafarian, between the Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist and the Church of…