The Semiotics of Trump: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater,…
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Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do
Whether cavalier attitudes or crippling dread, the varied responses of American Muslims to Trump’s election reflect our political diversity—we are anything but homogeneous.
Read MoreWhere Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech
“Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes.
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White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”
Some conservative Christian leaders are challenging the statistic that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump.
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To White Evangelicals, a Long Overdue Dear John Letter
After years of mutual suspicion, disagreements about leadership, and public fights, we have shut the door on our decade-long relationship.
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Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me
“Something has been broken for me; a fragile hope that the work of racial and gender justice will be embraced by the larger church.”
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Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises
An interview with sociologist Arlie Hochschild on her years in Tea Party territory.
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Media Hit Hard On Trump’s White Supremacist Appointee, But Which “Media”?
President-Elect Trump’s announced this weekend that Breitbart News chairman, Steve Bannon, would be his chief strategist.
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Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?
“We, as a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans.”
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Right-Wing Religion, Anti-Globalism, Authoritarian Rule: America Catches Up With the Rest of the World
The rise of ISIS has some parallels to the rise of Donald Trump.
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