QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is
QAnon isn’t a cult. I know we want it to be, as numerous pundits have…
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No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody’s Talking About
There’s an important element missing in our national conversation about the flood of legislation attacking…
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Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value
Allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment, so to speak. Have you ever…
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As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort
In Florida, a state senate committee wants to make it illegal to cause discomfort to…
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Is This the End of Roe v. Wade And the End of Abortion Rights in the US?
Saturday 22 January marks 49 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v….
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Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer
The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…
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Praying for a Victory: Packed Supreme Court Takes Up Yet Another Christian Nationalist Cause
Can public school employees use their position of authority to impose religious rituals on other…
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As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?
Readers of the Editorial Board are familiar with my obsession with political time—or how one…
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Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling
Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6,…
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Will Religion Finally Give Peace a Chance? Rising to the Challenge of Nonviolence as Armageddon Looms
So here we are, some of us, still calling out “peace on earth, goodwill to…
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