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The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…start of World War III. Reagan had arrived at the evangelical gathering in Florida fresh on the heels of several briefings at the White House where advisers urged him to hold his ground against growing calls for a nuclear arms freeze. Reagan assured them his administration would staunchly oppose any freeze, a message he carried with him to the Orlando pulpit. What he said toward the end of his half-hour-long address (sentiments that, reportedly, w…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…that this was primarily, or exclusively, politically-motivated violence. A number of commentators seem to believe Mateen was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adjustment to the modern world has proved faltering and agonized enough to produce a metastasizing strain of vio…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…from all sectors. “They’re pandering to the Jewish octogenarians in South Florida,” or “they’re pandering to the Christian Zionist evangelicals.” Each may be true but neither answers the question satisfactorily. As for the Jewish Floridians, many will not vote for Obama anyway, not because he doesn’t love Israel enough but because he is black. This is the dirty little secret of a certain generation of American Jews. American Jewry has spent so mu…

The Right is Attempting to Get Men to the Polls

By Ben Lorber

…ry has arrived,” Elon Musk tweeted this morning. “Men are voting in record numbers. They now realize everything is at stake.” The sentiment that “men are surging to the polls en masse,” as one Florida pundit put it, was repeated across the MAGAverse. “It is my sacred and highest duty as a husband and father to protect my loved ones,” Stephen Miller tweeted. “As man, you have a duty to vote today and end the invasion and occupation of America.” The…

The Radical Background of Harry Reid’s GOP Opponent

By Julie Ingersoll

…s, but to Republicans; leaders have criticized Sarah Palin for calling on tea partiers to choose one of the major parties. The party is officially on the ballot in at least 17 states including Florida, where Bernie DeCastro, an ex-con turned prison minister, its candidate running for U.S. Senate, thinks tea party favorite Marco Rubio is too liberal. …

The Religious Left: It’s Alive!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…we’re a voice crying in the wilderness. A new study from the University of Florida may just be the amplification of our voice that we need. It confirms that there is a growing religious left in this country and dispels the “God gap” theory “that white religious Christians are conservative and more likely to vote Republican, said UF researcher Kenneth Wald.” ”We are able to uncover considerable evidence of a religious left among Christians, and the…

Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleansing? Don’t Be.

By Michael Jerryson

…been no clearance operations. Nevertheless, we are concerned to hear that numbers of Muslims are fleeing across the border to Bangladesh. We want to find out why this exodus is happening. As State Counsellor for her government, Aung San Suu Kyi’s words are, at the minimum, disturbing. In her speech, she cites several times Kofi Annan’s final report of the advisory commission on the Rakhine State. On the very first page of the introduction, the re…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…e presence of other creationist museums in Arkansas, Texas, California and Florida suggests that the war is far from over. It remains to be seen whether the leaders of the creationist movement will be able to effectively mobilize enough American voters to bring about the kinds of sociopolitical changes for which their paradigmatic model provides a superhuman charter. It is clear, however, that supporters of evolution would do well to implement a n…

U.S. Bishops’ Silence on Guns and Gays

By Patricia Miller

…d form of religious martyrdom. Only Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, had the guts to admit that the Catholic Church was complicit in fostering a culture of hostility toward the gay community: …sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ult…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

The town of Rosemary Beach sits along a stretch of the Florida panhandle known for its alabaster sand beaches and clear aquamarine water. The community is a recreation of an Italian seaside resort, complete with stone cobbled streets and towering villas overlooking quaint shops in buildings in muted hues of cranberry and tangerine. I’ve stopped here on a tour I’m taking of the Gulf of Mexico coastline. I started my drive Friday from the Atlantic…