Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
Most of us don’t want to grow up to be our parents, especially when we’re…
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The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border
Right-wing media have been relentless in their attacks on trans people. In a single three-week…
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Opposition to Marriage Equality is Not the Only Scriptural Position for Christians
Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about Joseph Kuilema, a professor at…
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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to…
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Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they,…
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‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
Over the same period in which advocates of reproductive justice have been fighting a rearguard…
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What Most Critics Missed About Dustin Lance Black’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’
At the Salt Lake City premiere of Under the Banner of Heaven, writer, director, and…
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Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion
Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart…
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Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late
In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a…
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Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)
By the time you read this, Ketanji Brown Jackson will almost certainly have been confirmed…
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