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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…Indonesia. That’s not enough to purchase a gallon of milk there! It barely buys a Big Mac! Today no one can claim ignorance. Workers have journeyed to the U.S. to give gut-wrenching accounts of their travails. Journalists and watchdog groups have exhaustively exposed the injustices workers making Nike products endure. Read, for example, this recent article based on interviews of eighteen women in Vietnam who have experienced intimidation, abuse, a…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…New York, practiced Buddhism, and were intent on making sure that I didn’t buy into gender stereotypes. For every doll, I also had a truck. For every tea set, I got a sword. My father, in particular, took an interest in ensuring I was as well-rounded as possible. He bought me chemistry sets and explained atoms to me. When I complained that I was too little to do anything, we built a robot together. Yes, a robot. As I watched Virgin Tales, a Swiss…

Getting Back into Blogging

By Amina Wadud

…hing I thought about on this trip. I made a last-minute effort to at least buy presents for my grandsons, who already have a quite a collection of T-shirts from various places, if not from the airports on the way out of those places. It’s one of those “thought that counts” kind of things: a way of sharing something from my time away with them. In the dream, one of the members of my tour group lands in the holy city with an inflatable Eiffel tower….

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…. In the coming years, it’s an open question regarding how much the courts buy their appeals to operate businesses as “religious” places deserving of certain legal protections. That they are appealing to a secular idea, namely religious freedom, is instructive and interesting but not out of step with their forebears, especially those in business. A business history of conservative evangelicalism shows that evangelicals have long treated spiritual…

The Visceral Vote: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero

By Ira Chernus

…would undermine the stability of “the American way.” Too few voters would buy that. Nor can the Dems cast the many “seekers” under their big tent as a threat, lest they fracture their growing but still fragile coalition. That leaves them with two options. They can continue to muddle through as they are doing, hoping that economic distress is indeed, as Obama suggests, deep and wide enough to outweigh all the cultural factors working against them….

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…anufacturers decide to start handing out free contraceptives, the money to buy them will have to come from somewhere. Where will it come from, since neither employers nor employees will be paying for these contraceptives? That leaves the insurers, whose revenues come from the premiums that subscribers pay them. It’s difficult to see how insurance companies would avoid using premiums to cover the costs of contraceptives. They could, perhaps, use pr…

Why Pope Francis Makes Me Miss Jerry Falwell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. It also depends, quite assuredly, on getting those young people to fully buy in to the doctrine, dogmas and traditions that are held by each. Which is why we are hearing a lot of pretty progressive talk about acceptance and loving of neighbors, and absolutely no actual movement toward reforming, revising or jettisoning the very exclusive and mean-spirited doctrines and dogmas that young people rejected in the first place. Which leads me to agree…

Porn, Abuse, or Just Plain Incompatibility… Is Divorce Ever a Sin?

By Daniel Schultz

…ed more often these days because they can afford to. Essentially, they can buy their way out of a bad relationship and survive. That’s true of men, but particularly of women, who tend to have fewer financial resources than their male partners. Don’t think that there aren’t men who will use that to their advantage. Part of Jesus’ concern with divorce stemmed from the plight of abandoned women in his day, who were often reduced to begging or prostit…

Palin, Again.

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…learly had something to do with that. John McCain inexplicably appointed a Number Two who pandered to the religious base of his party and, despite the nonsensical speculation that she would draw away disaffected Hilary Clinton supporters, attracted not a soul from the Independent middle both candidates were courting. It was a disastrous choice in every way. And there was more. With the impression that McCain had become a panderer, any lingering il…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…of. Second is the despicable way in which we have raised today’s young to buy into the casino mentality, where it’s each for himself or for herself and where learning the art of the con is every bit as important as any real achievement. We coach the best and brightest to slither their way up the greasy pole, while we counsel the dull to become plodding and deferential. We teach both groups to suck up to bosses, albeit in different ways. Third (an…