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Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…t to the country. The conspiracy was even broader, Wirathu said, since the world’s news media were also under control of Islamic extremists. In fact, he claimed, it was the media that was in league with terrorists by branding him and other outspoken Buddhist leaders as the foe, as Time had done. The other well-known Buddhist activist in the region was Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, the leader of the Bodu Bala Sena movement in Sri Lanka, which Time, Ec…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Executive Director Jessica Stern, “What happens in the United States makes news around the world, and so this decision will have negative impact beyond US borders, fueling hostility and persecution of trans and gender non-conforming people everywhere.” Reuters reported that trans people in Ecuador were able to vote “for the first time according to their chosen gender,” a step activists called “signs of progress in the socially conservative and Cat…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…, external controls and surveillance by the new police state increase. The rule of law becomes the rule of man, and equal justice under law becomes special rights for favored groups. Conversely, Russia has begun embracing Christian values regarding family issues, albeit imperfectly, in stark contrast to its aggressively godless Soviet past. Repression in Russia is decreasing as rapidly as it is increasing in the U.S. The crux of the human rights…

Alex Jones, Performance Artist, and the Duelling Meanings of ‘Sincerity’ in Politics and Public Life

By Spencer Dew

…heroes as it is a product of the Right’s production and consumption of alt-news, alt-facts, and a relentless hermeneutic of suspicion. The liberal world that believed—and believes—in Barack Obama is, epistemologically, a relic of a simpler time (Camelot, we could call it), while the Right’s foil-hat obsession with plots and subterfuge is the logical reaction to more recent revelations about, well, plots and subterfuge. Watergate opened a whole lin…

Taking Liberties: 8 Great Stories on Religion and History in U.S. Politics

By The Editors

…ip and the academic enterprise—and, for that matter, of what constitutes “truth.” Mitt Romney and the Ghost of Anti-Mormonism JOANNA BROOKS • May 2, 2012 The anti-Mormonism that was nearly universal during Smoot’s era is now a tradition maintained by a very small slice of the American population. The Republican primaries gave that small slice a megaphone: the artificial loudness of their voice makes people overestimate their number. It’s Barack v….

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…Bruchalski, a former abortion provider from North Carolina; Dr. Anthony Caruso, a former in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialist in Chicago; Ruth Yorston, former women’s health clinic receptionist, currently Executive Director of Right to Life in Greater Ohio; and three former Planned Parenthood employees: Sue Thayer from Iowa, Catherine Adair from Massachusetts, and Linda Couri, who also discussed her own abortion. And then there was the headlin…

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From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…eoliberalism is ending—when the Republicans have been fully taken over by Trumpist rule-by-conspiracy-theory, and the Democrats have Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr as candidates who appeal to the conspiracy theory/new age spirituality segment of their voters. Bowman’s book reveals the roots of this reformulation of power relations in America which is rewiring the basic functioning of democracy. A new power and place in the universe B…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rence. We have to hold onto this if we’re going to engage in a sustained struggle for a better world. Of course, there are times when we may feel despair—and we shouldn’t try to suppress this—but we should find within ourselves the capacity to hang in there by continuing to hold onto the belief in our own individual and collective agency. CS: Is there any specific advice you would give to activists and advocates for social justice now that we’re i…

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…surely as witches steal penises and sacrifice babies to Satan. Just as in Trump’s world, American women wrap newborn babies beautifully, rock them briefly, and then cruelly execute them. Trump’s lies have long been understood to be more frequent and egregious than those of any public figure in U.S. history. And the link between his many lies and the rise of bizarre conspiracy theories has been deftly explored as well. But it’s time we recognize th…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…ACA to 877877. For those who don’t want to sign up, you can still find the stories and share the stories of immigrants. And ask people. What we’ve discovered is that there are a lot of young DACA people you wouldn’t know about. At this meeting I [attended], there was an Asian contingent with Filipinas, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islanders who were DACA recipients, and we think of it as just an issue with Mexico and Latin America. So ask people….