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Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…or public benefits that violate federal law and enhances penalties (from a class 2 to a class 1 misdemeanor) for agency employees who fail to report “discovered” violations of federal immigration law; Limits the types of documents a person can show to prove their identity; Requires the state police training agency, AZ POST, to summarily revoke a peace officer’s ability to serve the public if the officer does not uphold state or constitutional law…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rvative Christian movement that considers women and pregnant people second-class citizens in the God-given patriarchy and holds that human life begins at conception. The case in question involved three couples who had sued because a patient at the hospital had accidentally destroyed embryos intended for IVF. The ruling is based on an 1872 law regarding the “unlawful killing of minors,” claiming that under it, embryos should be considered children….

Georgetown Poverty Summit Impoverished on Women in More Ways Than One

By Patricia Miller

…credit and the need for employment to stabilize communities and the middle class, there wasn’t a single mention of the growing consensus about the devastating impact of unintended pregnancy on poor women and concrete solutions to address it. Instead, discussion of solutions mainly focused on the proper balance between the welfare state and public investment and “free market” solutions to poverty. When Dionne did tentatively raise the issue of “fam…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…less worthy of mourning when they don’t live up to the standards of middle-class respectability—reveals that even when a video clearly shows a black man being shot in the back by a white police officer, the footage is never objective. Images are interpreted through our filters, which often include race and class prejudice. Who Holds the Camera? One of the earliest and most controversial activities of the Black Panther Party was the police patrol….

Hillary-the-Preacher, and Why Journalists Can’t Let Go of the “Democrats Don’t Get Religion” Story

By Daniel Schultz

…vember—Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan—are strongholds of white, working-class voters, many of whom are mainline Protestants and Catholics. Clinton did not focus on faith outreach to these groups: Her campaign declined a speaking invitation at Notre Dame, for example, reasoning that white Catholics weren’t her target audience. Campaigns, especially presidential campaigns, have to make difficult decisions about how to allocate resources, the most…

Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…exercises in deception. The prevailing frame of the ideal voter as middle class and the excessive attention given to our presidential candidates’ tax returns (or lack thereof) and Goldman Sachs speaking fees have obscured more pivotal realities on the other side of the asset and income scale: there is a class of citizens and residents who endure taxation without effective political representation. Neither candidate, for example, has a major platf…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…. Then there was the king daddy of them all: Father Cavanaugh’s philosophy class. He took us through all the well-worn arguments for the existence of God: the ontological, the cosmological, the teleological. Also arguments against the existence of any God, given the wretched state of affairs down here on planet Earth, who could simultaneously be omniscient, omnipotent, and all-loving. I don’t remember the details. What I do remember are his ques…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…who had hitherto remained comparatively pure between the open vices of the class above and the hidden crimes of the class below them. The pernicious love of gambling diffused itself throughout society… “The pernicious love of gambling”—the main symptom of a pervasive “moral epidemic.” Isn’t that the dirty secret lying at the heart of every Ponzi scheme? Why did people clamor to be part of Madoff’s investments? Why did people clamor for pieces of J…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…ampaign of fear. He perfected Joe-the-Plumber politics of racial division, class bitterness, and the valorization of ignorance. It was as if the ruling class decided that the public was too inspired. A hopeful and energized populace was unruly and hard to control. We had, I guess, been a little rebellious, though never so dangerously out-of-control as a Nixon Flu-infected media still likes to pretend. Not long after our first trips to the Moon, Am…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e and not just “black” people. Sherrod told the story of helping a working class white farmer save his farm. Memories of her father’s still-unsolved racial murder and legacies of racial injustice against African Americans, she said, initially made her hesitant to put full efforts behind white farmers Roger and Eloise Spooner when they approached her for help. However, when the white attorney to whom Sherrod referred the Spooners failed to take the…