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Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…red said something about eating pets and distancing itself from JD Vance. High and lowlights for me included: According to Trump, Biden has a 4-sentence plan that Harris is copying, and it’s based on the classic book Run, Spot, Run. “Take a look at her plan. She doesn’t have a plan.” Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, are basically the new Riggs and Murtaugh of DC because they’re gun owners. Harris’ “girl, what?” face was unstoppable. Trump i…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…protected the future of Black children, not our opponents.” Despite their high levels of religiosity, a solid majority of African Americans support safe and legal access to abortion. And African American women have the highest rate of abortion amongst all groups of American women. The reasons are not mysterious—Black women are disproportionately poor, under-employed, single and living in highly segregated communities with limited health care acce…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…the common refrain that Muslim families in Europe tend to maintain a very high level of fertility. Once again, this statement contains a partial truth and misses the big picture. Population growth indeed tends to be high in Muslim countries compared to their European counterparts. Still, birth rates within many Islamic countries have declined drastically over the past 20 years. A more accurate assessment of demographic trends among Muslims would…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…Australia hence the beefed up prime-time ads in the US. Many of [Amway’s] highest-level distributors have left to join other multilevel marketing groups, and I now have an internal management document detailing a five year 96% dropout rate. Thousands of Amway victims from countless nations have sent me heart-wrenching testimonials. Quite a few involve losses in excess of $10,000. Through his time selling Amway products, Scheibeler, who had develo…

Lesbians Can Dance: Mississippi School Settles Over Cancelled Prom

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e 2010 dance. Now, she has settled a lawsuit against Itawamba Agricultural High School, winning $35,000 in damages, and forcing the school to amend its discrimination policy. In a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of McMillen, “school officials agreed to implement a policy banning discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the first policy to do so at a public school i…

Shifting Talk on Mormon Racism Reveals Divisions within LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…al scripture. But the talk will appear in print, unchanged. One month. Two high-placed LDS sources. Two very different takes on the faith’s historic racism. One offers no excuses for priesthood segregation. One makes it sound like part of God’s plan. The events of this spring reveal a Church whose hired historians and high-ranking officials seem at times to be speaking at cross-purposes. They also reveal an ongoing struggle within Mormonism to co…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…and greed. What Mandeville seems to want people to know is that the moral high ground is to understand that you don’t really have any moral high ground. You realize that you’re a selfish, awful person, but still pretend you’re not, and then at least you have true self-knowledge, but you will still do the things necessary for civil society to flourish. In the current political moment, though, our anxiety seems different. There’s a lingering sense…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…influential Arlington Group for jerking him around and goes after several high-profile leaders by name: Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Bob Jones III, and especially Gary Bauer, whom he calls “politically clueless.” Interestingly, there is not one mention of James Dobson, whose feckless wavering during the GOP primary apparently didn’t warrant Huckabee’s scorn. Perhaps that is because Dobson did eventually endorse Huckabee, but only when…

The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…y the monsters and demons become expressions of the seriousness with which high schoolers take what seems to adults trivialities: a math test, prom, the dramatic end to a two-week relationship (High School is Hell!). The clever dialogue that turned nouns into adjectives, verbs into nouns, as a way to remind us that there is no point in saving the world if we can’t laugh while doing it. The depth of the character development that allowed each chara…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e across things that seem to happen more than chance should allow… such as high-profile sex abuse scandals involving leaders from the Quiverfull/fundamentalist subcultures. That can’t happen by chance, can it? It must be that the ideology and the subculture turn non-sex-abusers into sex abusers. Well, I don’t know that we can say the last bit yet, for reasons I’ll explain in a minute. But meanwhile, let me risk stating the obvious and point out th…