It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty
In the next few weeks, Virginia’s General Assembly will be asked to consider a bill…
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The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6
“Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of…
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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the Republican House Rep…
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The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism
While the horrific scenes of the invasion and occupation of the US Capitol building were…
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As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
This week, amid Democratic victories in Georgia’s Senate runoffs and a Christian nationalist attempt to…
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The Problem Isn’t Just Legal Efforts to Overturn Elections, the Problem is Bad Faith
As Donald Trump’s time in the White House winds down, Republicans across the nation continue…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
Amen and awoman. Exclusion and inclusion. Division and diversity. Religion and nonreligion. Rep. Cleaver (D-MO)…
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How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking
Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…
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