Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and…
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The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
Elon Musk has been warning about the imminent end of human life as we know…
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For Times Such as These: Sacred Time and Radical Community Building in the Diaspora
While Jewish history is so often recounted as a linear pathway—usually pointing toward and ending…
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Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
A grainy, jittery video has gone viral on social media. Duct-taped to a chair and…
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Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
Ever since those velvet curtains parted to reveal that Robert Francis Prevost—aka Leo XIV—was the…
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Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884…
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Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. The city…
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Germany classifies ‘right-wing extremist’ AfD as a danger to democracy — and high-ranking Trump officials jump to defend it
Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal…
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White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
The Catholic Church has a new leader, with the Augustinian cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV,…
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HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
White smoke emerged over the Sistine Chapel this afternoon, notifying the world that the College…
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