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Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

…and with dealings that skirt the law. Most voters know politics is grisly business. We recognize the seamy side and pick a candidate whose better sides we like. In short, we vote for a candidate in spite of the flaws. As one millennial supporter recently told the New Republic’s Adam Peck, “I am willing to say Sanders has been a little hypocritical when it comes to guns, but it is not enough to make my support waver.” But votes for Hillary come, a…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…escue’s increasingly dominant strategy of “constricting the clinics out of business” through the enactment and enforcement of onerous regulations regarding clinic staff’s hospital privileges or the physical set-up of the facility. And meanwhile, on the state level, Mark Gietzen, Chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life (a peer of Newman’s who frequently drives Operation Rescue’s “Truth Truck” and organized sidewalk counselors outside Tiller’s cli…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…ion in an Instagram video. Cost isn’t the issue for America’s Black middle class, Akinwale argued, “We have money to spend.” Rather, the issue is that CrossFit’s greatest value is its ability to create community through fitness and when confronted with a primarily white community that may be, at best well-intentioned and at worst offensive, the question for the Black fitness consumer becomes: “Why would I spend $200 a month to feel like an outside…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…got a phone call from the agency that I chose. Turns out, this first full business day after Ramadan was also the day that they clarified for me all the upcoming deadlines. In the next week (that is, by or before September 20), all my pre-travel preparations need to be complete. It all feels rather last-minute to me. But then, maybe that’s the way it goes. No, if I had my way I would call this entry: how not to choose a tour company. Really. The…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…a sham. We Muslims are already a deeply marginalized people in mainstream American culture. More than half of Americans have a negative view of us. One-third of Americans—that’s more than one hundred million people—want us to carry special IDs so that they can easily identify us as Muslim. We shouldn’t be perpetuating our marginalization by marginalizing others. Rejecting the right to same-sex marriage, but then expecting empathy for our communit…

Dispatches from the Workplace: Eid stirs fury in Shelbyville, Tennessee

By Kim Bobo

…slapped them in the face! Good job, that’s just what we needed another un-American company to debase those wonderful people that keep this country going. I think I’ll choose another product to use from now on. Oh, by the way Muslims are not our friends; they want all of us infidels to die. If you don’t believe that to be true you had better get more familiar with the Koran before you do any more pandering to them. Then try reading John 3:16 you j…

Doonesbury Comic Waxes Eloquent on the Greatness of Jesus, Slams Old Testament God

By Benjamin Weiner

…ideas led Trudeau to make this slip—to associate those opposed to Jesus with usury—the game grows a little less fun.) The money changers, who most likely provided a necessary service to pilgrims coming to the Temple from afar, seem to get caught up in Jesus’s frenzy against those who conduct business in the sacred precinct. That is to say, when Jesus gets mad, Mr. Trudeau, it’s not like those vicious “old testament” prophets Isaiah and Amos, who…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…dated ourselves to these new circumstances, but not happily and with grave reservations about where this is taking us. And now it seems a mainly youthful Occupy movement is giving voice to all of our previously silent reservations and shouting out a very loud non serviam! It really leaves the establishment with very little to say. What’s their response going to be: domination is good for you?? It was a little more than three decades ago when Marg…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…and people of color who happened to be citizens, has been integral to the business model of California agribusiness from the beginning; starting with unemployed Chinese railroad workers in the 19th century, and, eventually, Filipino, Japanese, and Mexicans hired by growers to work in the fields. When an influx of white refugees from the dust bowl were immortalized in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the plight of the farm workers came briefl…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…on Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom (PoliPointPress, 2008). ++++++++++ Jewish Group Protests Mormon Posthumous Baptisms of Jewish Victims of the Holocaust The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors recently held a press conference in New York City to demand that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) stop posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps. Ch…