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Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus
This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind ...
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On Tenth Anniversary Obergefell Ruling, Christian Right Still Waging War on Marriage Equality Though Likely to Lose This Battle
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex ...
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Bad Muslim, Good Candidate? Mamdani’s Campaign Disrupts ‘Electability’ of Islamophobia
Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the ...
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The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
Pronatalism has become a pet project for a certain subset of the Right. Indeed, the ideology dovetails nicely with longstanding Republican priorities like banning abortion and limiting access to birth ...
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“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life - Religion Dispatches
It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her work, ...
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JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins - Religion Dispatches
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former ...
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Why Scholars Should Take Accounts of Supernatural Phenomena Seriously — And How it Might Save the Humanities - Religion Dispatches
Despite this singular body of work, How to Think Impossibly may be Kripal’s strangest book yet. It describes encounters with mantis-like aliens and other things that serious scholars aren’t supposed ...
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The Trump Administration’s Approach to Immigration is Inspired by the Bible — The Book of Revelation - Religion Dispatches
Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as his ‘border czar,’ a first step toward implementing a scorched-earth immigration policy that includes large-scale detention of migrants and mass deportation ...
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Trump’s Cabinet (and Other) Picks Paint Picture of a Christian Nationalist ‘Kakistocracy’
Trump’s nominee for US Ambassador to Israel is Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and noted Christian Zionist, as Ben Lorber points out. Christian Zionism in many cases is not about ...
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Even if Voters 'Get What They Asked For' it's More Likely to Cause a Fascist Death Spiral Than a Lesson Learned - Religion Dispatches
In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this sentiment: a lot of voters are going to get what they asked for and learn ...
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The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right - Religion Dispatches
The ADL over the past year has been ringing the warning bell about Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going as far as demanding police disrupt the protest ...