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Georgetown Poverty Summit Impoverished on Women in More Ways Than One

By Patricia Miller

…nts”—and talk about “common ground” on issues like expanding the child tax credit and the need for employment to stabilize communities and the middle class, there wasn’t a single mention of the growing consensus about the devastating impact of unintended pregnancy on poor women and concrete solutions to address it. Instead, discussion of solutions mainly focused on the proper balance between the welfare state and public investment and “free market…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…we’re here on this planet with other humans, not just ourselves, with headphones, watching Netflix all day. “A change in attitude seems to be occurring around the country. I don’t have a lot of time or energy to convince people that they should stop being selfish with their buildings. People come to me, and they get that already. They realize this building could be used in a lot of other ways.” ~ Nathan Marion Netflix binging is our top competito…

You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame

By Vlad Chituc

…blame Islam for terrorism in the Middle East, but they seem less eager to credit Islam for the advancements of math and science a thousand years ago. Do you think what’s going on there is that we’re literally anthropomorphizing Islam as if it were an agent? Or is something deeper happening? That’s a good question and a nice distinction that you’re making. I think part of the answer might be that people are just using the psychological tools that…

It’s Still Your Fault: The Cubit’s Guide to Blaming

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims. Moghul flipped the script, giving Muslims credit for a laundry list of innovations, which helps to bring the absurdity of monolithic blaming into focus. And Xarissa Holdaway looked at how racially-inflected blaming morphs into vengeance in the American prison system. 3. Beware of monsters The landscape of blame is populated with monsters—big, lumbering, imaginary sources of evil that ultimately reflect our own fear…

Black Lives Matter Activists Disrupt Presidential Candidates at Activist Conference

By Daniel Schultz

…o do that if they have any hope of winning the general election. 3. To his credit, O’Malley took a meeting with This Week in Blackness founder Elon James White and admitted that he blew it at the Netroots forum. Whether he did or not is immaterial—the point is again to signal, “I’m listening.” That was more than Sanders could manage. He was apparently so undone that he canceled events with the local Democratic party and later with White. This, to…

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…a friend. Of which I have many. Strand: We’ll need your friend’s name and credit card. Shit. Allegations include: That Islam is not, like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, a “great religion,” but a toxic death cult; that Muslims can only be peaceful “moderates” who work to reform their toxic death cult, or menacing “Islamists” who love their toxic death cult; that this conclusion is grounded in extensive interviews with numerous Muslim…

Trump and the Bible Dodge

By Sarah Posner

…rump is rejiggering the way the Republican Party does religion. Give Trump credit for one thing: exposing, in plain view, that much of the religious right is driven more by politics than by religion; that is, more by mythology than theology. The usual demands that candidates pledge their fealty to the Bible, to the Christian nation, to the idea that America is in decline because of secularism have been suspended for Trump. That’s befuddling many o…

The Moral Case for Trump?

By Eric C. Miller

…He is impressed by Trump’s “remarkable” children, but does not see fit to credit the three separate mothers who had a hand in their raising. And fear not, Grudem declares, Trump’s (unnamed) personal friends attest to his “kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity”—all public evidence to the contrary. Grudem’s piece is pretty long, but the brief quotation above includes exactly everything that he is prepared to say in defense of Donald Trump the ma…

Sanders Gets “B-” for Religious Outreach at Liberty U Appearance

By Daniel Schultz

…yed things safe, and reaped a lot of “meh” in return. Sanders does deserve credit for going to Liberty, and for claiming upfront his differences with the conservative-leaning college. He even took some questions after the speech. The audience at Liberty seemed willing to listen (or well-behaved, anyway). But it can’t be easy for a candidate to expose himself or herself like that in the midst of a presidential primary. Still, this was mostly Sander…

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…expanded the personal exemption, standard deduction, and earned income tax credit, relieving six million poor of a tax burden. Also on Cruz’s docket is the elimination of the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Education, and the IRS. But when those areas were unregulated, T.R. found rampant corporate corruption, price fixing, cartels, slums, and poisons in the nation’s food. Jeb Bush wants to repeal all Obama regulatio…