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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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
This week, amid Democratic victories in Georgia’s Senate runoffs and a Christian nationalist attempt to…
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How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking
Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…
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Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors
On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with…
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Why Does Trump’s Authoritarian Christian Base Ignore Never-Trump Evangelical Leaders?
Here we are, a week and a half after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden became…
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QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?
John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead and has been dead for some time. In July…
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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]
Below is the second of a two-part interview with Charles Kriel and Katharina Gellein Viken…
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Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination
Among the troubling buzzwords forced into our pop culture vocabulary by the Covid-19 pandemic, one…
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QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement
If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks…
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