Search for "American Airlines 1800-299-7264 Business Class Reservation Booking"

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…of anti-choice Catholics. Trinity was a predominately white, upper middle class college when my mother suggested I consider it. Now, more than 85% of its students are African American or Hispanic, many of whom are the first in their families to go to college. Trinity, without the ethos or endowment of Notre Dame, embodies Catholic commitment to excellence and inclusivity. Maybe next year the president will just stroll up North Capitol Street and…

Yes, Virginia: There IS a War on Christmas: Its Revolutionary Meaning is Inverted in the Winner-Take-All Era

By Peter Laarman

…ready grown fat at the trough: now that’s considered efficient (in Harvard Business School terms) as it fuels the porcine spirits needed to propel a robust capitalism. Likewise, nothing brings the reality of the lives of the poor home like spending even the tiniest amount of time with people who are not making it at all: with people who are living in unheated tenements or living rough on the street. Children, for God’s sake, suffering exposure and…

Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?

By Arri Eisen

…s realistic a way as possible. Berns et al, after identifying through more classical psychological surveying means what participants’ sacred values were, offered participants increasing amounts of real money to go against those values—or rather to sign a document that said they would go against it. The scientists couldn’t ethically challenge the actual sacred value, but they could challenge the participants’ integrity in relation to that value. Th…

Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire

By Kate Blanchard

…lothes and went through the motions to get to my 8:30 a.m. World Religions class. (Yes, I know “World Religions” is terribly out of fashion now, but cut me some slack. It’s still a topic worth exploring, and in a college full of pre-professional majors it is my best-selling general education course, so I will not apologize for trying to complicate the views of future business people, health care professionals and public school teachers.) I struggl…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…selling enough candy door-to-door to support the family, or made to leave class during any discussion of history that referred to religion or singing of Christmas carols. Always made to feel different and largely forbidden from socializing outside the family, their alienation became so great it made going home to their father’s violent rage seem safe and normal. When they were home, Nate says, no one knew what might trigger the next tirade. When…

Politicized Religion Fuels Christian-Muslim Violence In Nigeria

By Elizabeth Dickinson

…e is no greater defeat.) When a rich man skims off the top of his enormous business deal, however, he buys a new house. So too do the resources unevenly flow. Nigeria is a wealthy state; objectively, there should be no reason for the largest oil producer in Africa to be receiving any sort of development aid. In fact, however, to the vast majority of Nigerians, the government doesn’t exist. Health care, education, and infrastructure are effectively…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…ian Caucusoids. It’s the same question that Samuel Johnson asked about the American revolutionaries back in 1775: “How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” Lest anyone think that race has nothing to do with the House GOP’s budget-balancing agenda, we should take a look at what is actually at stake. The most visible targets of the austerity crusaders—Obamacare and Planned Parenthood—are programs that serve and…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…a “strong man” like Trump. That cleaves whites nicely along differences of class and education. Still, immigration and all of Trump’s other demagogueries seem unlikely to get him much traction, for two reasons. Americans are already largely sorted into political camps on these issues: 63% of Republicans say their party represents their views on immigration, and so 69% of Democrats. Throw the independents into the mix, and the Democrats come out wi…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…g your victims. Blaming the victims and opponents of White Supremacy is as American a political tradition as it gets. We simply do not “remember” it as such because that’s part of the magic of White Supremacy: it gets to erase itself. Something like the #TrumperTantrum at the Capitol, though striking in its specifics, then appears to most observers like an unprecedented outrage. Its violence does not seem connected to the violence and political di…

Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend

By Kathryn Joyce

…overnment are carved out. Then you see Stupak, and you see that it’s not a class of women as limited as those, but it’s actually middle-class women. Toss in the threat that private insurance companies could follow government programs and, Kolbi-Molinas says, it could soon “be everybody.” As it stands the National Abortion Fund receives thousands of calls monthly from women desperate to fund their abortions, Saporta says, and while there are import…