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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…h has been under the media radar, but it has been truly significant. And many important victories have been won. Community organizing, which was focused on organizing particular neighborhoods, has given way to what Cortes calls “broad-based” organizing, which is meant to build ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse coalitions that can last for generations. Still, all of this growth doesn’t fully compensate for the deterioration of organizat…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…el, who contrast Obama negatively with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a February 5, 2015 floor speech, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) called Netanyahu “one of the most prescient voices that we have in the entire world to address some of the subjects and some of the dangers that face the United States of America.” In contrast, Franks claimed, Obama “chooses to listen to these mysterious voices of those who did not vote in our Nation’s elec…

If Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus

By Jill Marshall

…s not there someplace. The good news for Pelosi is that she’s in good company when it comes to misquoting the Bible. None other than Jesus Christ misquoted scripture. There are numerous examples of misquotations of scripture from the Hebrew Bible in the Christian scriptures. For example, in a dramatic scene in the Gospel of John, Jesus cries out in the temple in Jerusalem, “If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as…

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy

By David Frankfurter

…mind when writing? I envisioned the literate, curious non-academic reader (NYRB, NYT, Atlantic, etc.), but also I wanted to lay down some observations, principles, and ideas, and that latter goal unfortunately required some more complex writing. Are you hoping just to inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope to inform readers, to spark discussion and self-criticism. What alternative title would you give the book? My wife came up w…

New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…ng of the Catholic Church. The pope — who recently returned from a trip to Egypt to meet with Muslim leaders and others — is more hopeful in his take on Muslim-Christian relations. Pope Francis frequently highlights examples of Muslim-Christian coexistence, embraces Muslim refugees, and speaks of similarities across the faith traditions. But, among many Catholics in the United States, Bannon’s view of a Muslim-Christian clash is more popular than…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…ism is a point of pride for Occupy participants—or at least, by sufficient numbers of them to scotch anything that might look like an agenda. I doubt this will change. A Deeper Form of Protest Which leads me to the third and final #Occupy circular-ism, which can best be defined as spiritual. There’s an intuitive, cultural, emotive sense that another checklist of items would just perpetuate the wrong way of thinking, the wrong way of being. We don’…

Bearded Soldiers: Religious Tension in Israel

By Benjamin Weiner

…re virtually incomprehensible to Israeli pietiests and secularists alike. Anyone asserting that his beard is neither secular nor orthodox finds himself in a tenuous position. As the Seder draws to a close, we invoke a final symbol: the cup of Elijah, which, because of the prophet Elijah’s place in Jewish mythology as a harbinger of messianic times, expresses our desire that the redemptions of our past, in Egypt and elsewhere, be transformed into a…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at we talk about America’s values. We do not allow discrimination against anyone. I will always speak out about this. We don’t want to permit discrimination here or in any country.” In Senator Cardin’s question for the record, he asked, “If confirmed, how will you represent the government in discussions regarding the rights of LGBT persons?” Ambassador Haley answered, “As I stated during my hearing, I strongly believe that the US should unabashedl…

Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…the X-rated Egyptian myth of Set and Horus. As that story goes, Horus—the Egyptian sky god—contends with Set, god of chaos and the desert, for control of all of Egypt. The rivalry between the two gods, who are sometimes depicted as brothers, entails seduction, revenge, betrayal and a blush-inducing debate over who left his semen in whom to be settled by the other gods, including Isis, their mother. More recently in the “Angels and Monsters” episo…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…te strawman argument, as though atheists or secular people really believe any such thing about government. Nobody really thinks government can solve the problem of evil, but many—believers or not—think it can help limit the effects of that evil. Let’s also raise here the question of why it’s so awful that people who, you know, don’t believe in God think government is okay. Last I checked, the Constitution was pretty good with that. On a broader le…