When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful
On Sunday, NBC’s “Meet the Press” interviewed Senator Ron Johnson. ABC’s “This Week” interviewed House…
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Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump
Hate. Fear. Lies. These are things most of us abhor and at least try to…
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Rep. Kinzinger Rejects Judgmental Family Letter But He’s No Cure for Evangelical GOP Authoritarianism
This week, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of only ten Republicans in the House of…
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When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness
In the end Donald Trump didn’t have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He went…
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How Do You Beat a ‘Pretty Damning’ Impeachment Case? You Lie
The House Democrats presented evidence Wednesday substantiating the allegation that, on January 6, Donald Trump…
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What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian…
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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism
The 2021 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB), held annually the first Thursday in February and attended…
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Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side
Two weeks after the historic Capitol riots, Joe Biden’s inauguration finally removed Donald Trump from…
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Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism
If you’ve spent much time around fandoms, online or off, you’ve surely heard something like,…
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Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America
America continues to divide and migrate toward opposing poles, one in which democratic government is…
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