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Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…n in George Orwell’s 1984, the gag order would effectively condemn working-class women to incomplete and/or inaccurate information while middle-class women with private health coverage would continue to be empowered with the resources and information to control their bodies. Women of color overwhelmingly rely on Title X-funded clinics for comprehensive care and counseling on family planning. According to California Latinas for Reproductive Justice…

What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ius, but he also wrote a concurring opinion in which he held that both the businesses and the Green family had standing to contest the ACA’s requirements. Articulating an expansive view of the scope of RFRA protections, Gorsuch depicted the Greens as being forced to choose “between abiding their religion or saving their business”: the same dilemma Phillips claims to face in Masterpiece Cakeshop. In his opinion, Gorsuch made clear that he does not…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…between them.” Without a solution that ends the occupation and the second-class status of Israel’s Arab citizens, it will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to be a liberal Zionist. This tension is slowly but increasingly finding its way into the public discourse via prominent public intellectuals, including journalist Peter Beinart, who led the way with his 2012 book The Crisis of Zionism, warning of drift away from and even hostility…

The Last Debate, Blow by Blow

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…gly so. He looked forward, and reassured us that the long-suffering middle class would always be his primary focus of concern when debating any proposal for rescue or relief. Too much dancing and too little engagement with the issues or each other; this round was a draw. Round Two: The Deficit The current budget realities are sobering: a deficit this year estimated to run anywhere from 455 billion to 1 trillion dollars, and a federal debt currentl…

The Semiotics of Trump: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It

By Gregory Bottoms

When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater, Virginia, I had an inkling—but only an inkling, like a twitchy nighttime fear—that Trump could win. But then no, I told myself, no way. We are not this gullible and self-destructive! Yet those bumper stickers on kids’ backpacks were haunting. I couldn’t shake them. I am an English professor in Vermont, in a liberal college town in arguably the most liberal…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…rohibiting eating and drinking in the prayer area, so we either sit in the classrooms or in the long and wide corridor that wraps around the prayer hall and between the classrooms. The long serving tables are in this corridor and so are the shelves for shoes. In addition, one of the classrooms is supposed to be the nursery during prayer. I remember one of those busy weekends, I could hear the sound of the children playing as I went into sajdah, or…

Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…Jewish project of making “Israeli Arabs” work, Israel had to cultivate a “class of collaborators,” individual Arabs who would essentially spy on their neighbors, and even their own families, to provide information about illegal activities, infiltrators, smuggling etc. These collaborators were awarded with preferential treatment by the government such as gun licenses, housing permits, lucrative jobs, and loans. The point more generally was to quel…

Morehouse Men in their Sunday Best

By Jonathan L. Walton

…concedes and conforms to structural racism while exacerbating intraracial classism. This is the main reason I am so uncomfortable with respectability discourse, particularly when it comes to higher education. We must teach emerging leaders that there is a stark difference between respectability and morality, just as we should never confuse preppiness for critical aptitude. Having spent almost a decade around some of the best minds in the Ivy Leag…

‘Heretics’ or ‘Atheists’? A Response

By Rachel Ozanne

…ed person. For instance, when this friend was the teaching assistant for a class on 20th-century American history, the professor emphasized women’s rights and feminism throughout the course. At the end of the semester, the professor asked the students how many of them believed in equal rights for women. Almost the entire class raised their hands. However, when he asked them how many of them were feminists, a much smaller number raised their hands….

We’re Not Just “Heterosexual with Issues”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ey lose the cultural war. If they can keep LGBT people in misery as second class citizens, then our community continues to fulfill their prophecy that we live in misery. Denying marriage rights (and the benefit of happiness it can bring) is part and parcel to the religious right’s war on LGBT people. They must keep this entire class of people from engaging in anything that might make the whole community happier and healthier—their very jobs depend…