Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
Donald Trump has, in the past, dallied with apocalypticism in his rhetoric and policy, but…
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2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
Considering that CPAC is the largest conservative conference in the US, the line-up of their…
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Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…
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Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of…
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The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks
Right-wing Christian blogger and media figure Rod Dreher has moved to Hungary, where he continues…
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Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger
In January the far-right website Townhall began publishing a four-part series on a so-called “Suburban…
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Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses
Upon the recent death of the conservative British historian Paul Johnson, the right-wing journal Public…
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The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia
When I need to know what’s wrong with the world and who to be outraged…
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Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution
A biblical death sentence. In America, in 2023, a legislator has proposed The Millstone Act,…
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In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing
A week after elections that produced the most far-right government in Israel’s history, the protests…
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