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Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ople skills” that women had long been expected to exemplify through unpaid domestic work were being recognized as valuable by Wal-Mart, which offered female employees the homey promise that they were important members of Wal-Mart’s corporate “family.” Trading on this emotional language, the company could offer women low wages and still retain their loyalty, as Moreton wrote, by framing their jobs as an extension of the evangelical “family values”…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…s that directly affected black Southerners—like excluding agricultural and domestic workers from Social Security. “Black clergy hoped that federal programs would push beyond the regional constraints of Jim Crow, but feared that local administrators would find ways to deny assistance to African Americans. They were right on both counts.” In 1935, Roosevelt wrote letters to over 100,000 American clergy and asked for their thoughts about the New Deal…

“This Pope is a Brazilian!”

By Silvia Alves Fernandes and Manuel A. Vásquez

…ften deal with the concrete problems—whether it be illness, drug addition, domestic strife, or crime—that afflict the faithful. In these Pentecostal churches it is hard to be anonymous; they seek a holistic transformation of the self. Much has been made of Francis’s call to the young people to “stir things up… to make a mess, to disturb complacency.” Francis also stated that “[n]o one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the…

Will Sarah Palin Ruin The Religious Right’s African-American Outreach?

By Sarah Posner

…Frederick Douglass Foundation (who has his own problems with a history of domestic violence that apparently doesn’t damage his standing with either the Foundation or the North Carolina Republican Party), who said “many black Republicans don’t use Sarah Palin as a benchmark.” As I’ve reported, the religious right is working hard — through the Frederick Douglass Foundation and other organizations — to reinvent itself as a racially diverse movement….

Muslim Boycott of Bloomberg’s Interfaith Breakfast

By Hussein Rashid

…NYPD has turned itself into a combination of the 1960s COINTELPRO FBI and domestic CIA operation. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recently called the NYPD his own “private army,” and offers no condemnation of the broad spying powers arrogated by the NYPD. The Mayor is hosting his annual Interfaith Breakfast on Friday, December 30, and the New York Times is reporting that Muslim leaders will be boycotting the event. I do know that the request for a bo…

A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…question that domesticated animals, like dogs, cats, and (the differently domesticated) rats exist in great abundance. We may not think about it much, but we can’t question the existence of animals such as cows and pigs that many of us eat. Perhaps, for most of us, there is little doubt that all of these familiar creatures will continue to exist for at least as long as we do. But most of us are also painfully aware of the havoc that our human hab…

Theory that Palin Dog-Whistled Christian Zionists is Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…sther story as a cautionary tale about anti-Semitism, but rather one about domestic culture wars, or a cosmic clash of civilizations, they’d be unlikely to read Palin’s reference to blood libel as sympathetic to Jews. Instead, it was quite obviously an effort on Palin’s part to make her followers sympathetic to her, regardless of the other consequences of her words. What’s more, the Esther analogy is applied to Palin despite her very un-Esther-lik…

Militias, Trump, Guns, and ISIS: Too much Masculinity?

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

…d “provision, protection, and purpose.” It is a commonplace of traditional domestic life that men are, or should be, breadwinners. Men also see themselves as protectors of their families. For most of them, though, a third element transcends the other two: a sense of masculine purpose. Masculine purpose was the most difficult for them to describe, particularly because it is today the most diffuse. The idea of purpose linked our men to voices such a…

Fight to the ‘Death’ and Go ‘Hungry’ at Hunger Games Camp

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ut how many lives we Americans have collected: in Guantanamo, in stateside domestic prisons, overseas in wars. Yes, these are familiar criticisms in our ever post-post-9/11 nation. But what’s going on here is more than violence, and perhaps even worse than Orwell, or Kafka, or Collins. It’s a through-the-looking-glass world of a prison that promised to stop its force-feeding of inmates during the month of Ramadan, out of “respect” for the sunrise-…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…bama’s inclusion of Rick Warren in the inaugural events and aspects of his domestic and foreign policy positions, drawing on Frederick Douglass’ disappointment with Lincoln during the 1861 inauguration. Some have cited Obama’s own defense of Lincoln in their critique: Lincoln had intended to use his first inaugural address to challenge the rebel Southern states with the words: “Shall it be Peace or a Sword?” But he abandoned such bellicosity, sayi…