This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right
In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago…
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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
While the Christian Right has been an increasingly powerful factor in American politics for decades,…
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The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem
Earlier this month, amid increasing death threats, the synagogue of the judge who signed the…
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Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!
What with Ukraine, Mar-a-Lago, Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!)…
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Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher
Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on…
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The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection
A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by…
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In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches
How many local churches are providing direct electoral support to far-right-wing Christian candidates for political…
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Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible…
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The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged…
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Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
Regular readers of Religion Dispatches will likely be familiar with my fairly frequent forays into…
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