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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Court uphel…

David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine

By Ed Simon

…tless fucking world; let’s not begrudge people when they’re able to find a little bit of heart in it. As writer Peter Bebergal, author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, said in a Facebook post this morning, listening to Bowie during a particularly difficult time in his life reminded him that “life could still be full of beautiful weirdness, magical art, and maybe even a little decadence.” Bowie was paradoxically completel…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…Jews. But it’s not in any way built out of a real Jew. A while ago, Chris Rock did a long interview with New York magazine. Rock started talking about how he would cover racism in the U.S. if he were a journalist. He said—I’m paraphrasing here—that when journalists want to cover racism, they usually go and talk to black people. But black people are not the source of the problem! White people are. Rock said that he’d do a piece about racism where…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ughter Bella was hospitalized.) Organizers said they had distributed 1,800 tickets, and the pews in the church were nearly full, with several hundred, if not nearly a thousand people in attendance. Gingrich was the only candidate to appear; Staver, the “forum’s” moderator took pains to point out that they had invited the other candidates. Santorum and Ron Paul had commitments outside of Florida. Mitt Romney, the candidate Staver and other leaders…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…e, isolated, backward. I offered this concern to Bell when we spoke on the phone. He responded thoughtfully, but cautiously. “Oh yeah. See the thing is: we actually do have real, life-or-death problems going on. And many of us are totally convinced that this” (he meant the stated reason for the law, the phantom possibility of trans, or fake-trans, people preying on young women in bathrooms) “is not one of them.” True enough, but to say that HB2 is…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…tate bribery. We would have to buy new, full-price tickets to Iran. On the phone with JetBlue’s customer service line that night, my righteous fury dissipated quickly. Could JetBlue really be to blame for bad weather, or a mechanical problem, or whatever system error had made our flight impossible? Don’t I benefit regularly from this massive travel infrastructure that, like Lady Justice, doles its punishments out blindly? I accepted $100 in travel…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…ering our question: “I’m Uncle Sam, that’s who I am, been hiding out, in a Rock and Roll Band.” All this critical awareness of duplicity, you see, is happening now as you and I become mesmerized by the environment. And at the end of “Candyman,” Hunter implicates the band and the audience: the seducer is the show and the seduced are all the rest. “If you’ve got a dollar boys, lay it on the line Hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round Won’t yo…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…erapeutic helpmates, confectionary for the soul. Cheeky angel California rockers Van Halen had perfected a particular type of sound that emphasized volume and fun in equal measure, all on ample display in their album MCMLXXXIV released appropriately in 1984. Featuring radio and jukebox friendly hits like “Hot for Teacher” and “Jump,” the album is punctuated with the driving guitar work of Eddie van Halen and the caterwaul vocals of David Lee Rot…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…more times before being removed from ministry in 1988. Larson was never defrocked. A Wichita Eagle investigation in 2000 found 17 men who had been abused by Larson. Five of his victims committed suicide. He was in prison from 2001 to 2006. Douglas McArthur McCain At 33 years old, Douglas McArthur McCain became the first American killed while fighting for the jihadist group ISIS. McCain was raised in mainstream American culture, a fan of Michael Jo…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…married in first month; Lutheran priests barred from officiating More than 800 same-sex couples were married in March after marriage equality went into effect on the first of the month; 770 had already been in civil partnerships. The Lutheran Evangelical Church has decreed that priests are not permitted to marry same-sex couples and some bishops warned that those who do would face “consequences.” From a March 1 story: In spite of the church rulin…