Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…
By Charlie Warzel Read at The Atlantic Elon Musk has spent the past 12 years tweeting whatever comes into his mind, often without major negative consequences. That was before he owned the place. Now, less than…
By Charlie Sykes, MSNBC Opinion Columnist Just days after Elon Musk assured advertisers that Twitter would not become “a free-for-all hellscape,” the social media site was swamped with an outpouring of racist, sexist and antisemitic…
Analysis by Aaron Blake Read at Washington Post For the second time in a week, members of Congress have signaled a potential shift in America’s policy toward Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. First, it was House…
By Annie Gowen Read at Washington Post MANHEIM, Pa. — At the end, after former president Donald Trump called in to energize the troops, more than 100 people lined up to be baptized. Some had driven…
By Adam Lashinsky As Elon Musk has climbed ever higher into the stratosphere of celebrity, some have likened him to Steve Jobs, the only near-contemporary whose accomplishments can compare to Musk’s commercial derring-do. Musk is…
By Nasrin Parvaz Read at The Guardian Women, life, freedom. These words have become the rallying cry for protest that has erupted in the wake of the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands…
By Zoe Williams Read at The Guardian Now that the inquest into the awful death of Molly Russell in 2017 has delivered its findings, we have a new reality to adjust to. The teenager died from…
By Lindsay F. Wiley Read at New York Times A federal judge ruled last week that requiring employers to cover PrEP, a medication that helps people at high risk for H.I.V. avoid infection, violates religious liberty because…
By Annie Gowen Read at Washington Post David Clements is traveling the country trying to persuade local leaders to withhold certification of election results. If he succeeds, it could cause chaos. NELIGH, Neb. — One…
By Michael Gerson Read at New York Times In many American places on a pleasant Sunday afternoon it is possible, as I recently did, to have coffee in the city at a bohemian cafe draped…
The Editorial Board Read at The New York Times By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate…
by Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post It began where it ended, on the West Front of the United States Capitol. On Jan. 6, 2021, an armed mob invited and incited by President Donald Trump…
Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…
By Thomas B. Edsall Read at New York Times There has been a burst of stories in recent weeks describing devastating internal conflicts within progressive organizations, the most conspicuous of which was Ryan Grim’s June 13…
By Agnes Callard Read at New York Times What should my friends do if I am being canceled? A decade ago, when I was a nonpublic philosopher writing only for a small group of academics, it…
by Michael Gerson Read at The Washington Post In D.C. — and everywhere else, I suspect, with a Bohemian pulse — Pride celebrations are in full swing. Some people who are gay have come to…
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner Read at The Guardian Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group…
By Nate Hochman Read at The New York Times Even for an insider like me, the whirlwind of energy and debate within today’s conservative movement can be bewildering. But what’s clear is that the Republican Party…
By Frank Schaeffer America does not have a gun problem. It has a Republican Party problem. ONLY Republican leaders-not even most Republican voters-are in lock step with the gun industry. If there is any hope…
By Frank Schaeffer My Marine son fought for America on 3 tours. Was his service for nothing? This Memorial Day, face the truth: Americans who died to keep us free died in vain. We are…
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Jessica Silver-Greenberg After one of its military-style rifles was used in the Texas elementary school shooting on Tuesday, the gun manufacturer Daniel Defense published a pop-up statement on its home page sending “thoughts and prayers”…
Parenthood itself seems poised to become a victim of America’s toxic politics. By Elizabeth Bruenig Read at The Atlantic America is a much harder place to be a child than it has any excuse to be,…
By Dina Zirlott Warning: Details in this story could be triggering to some readers. I was raped when I was 17 years old. I had a baby when I was 18 years old. My baby died…
By Megan McArdle If you were raised on 1970s feminism, as I was, the linguistic shift toward phrases such as “birthing people” and “uterus havers” has been a bit jarring. We grew up on “women’s…
By Dina Bakst Read at Washington Post Dina Bakst is a founder and co-president of the national nonprofit A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization advancing justice for workers caring for themselves and their loved ones.…
By Jennifer Rubin Read at Washington Post It is right up front in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” There is a reason…
By Colbert I. King Read at Washington Post On a Sunday morning this month, Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, stood in the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces outside Moscow and called on…
Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…
Trump won 2016 via Russian hacking- and faced no consequences. 2019 he tried to blackmail Zelensky over Biden- and faced no consequences. Trump knows by now that no one in the Republican Party or Democratic…
By Jennifer Rubin Read at Washington Post No civilized person thinks it’s a good thing that Russian President Vladimir Putin — widely and correctly regarded as a war criminal and the architect of a unjustifiable war of…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post In his gut-wrenching address to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United States for more — and more he will get. U.S. leaders across the spectrum saluted Zelensky after…
I Have Never Admired a Leader More Than I Admire President Biden Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all…
We Must Not Let Evangelicals Off the Hook for Backing Putin Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but…
Ukraine: A Mirror to see our Decadence in Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist…
Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…
By David Brooks Read at New York Times In June a statistic floated across my desk that startled me. In 2020, the number of miles Americans drove fell 13 percent because of the pandemic, but the number of…
By Adam McKay and Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Read at The Guardian As a scientist and a movie maker, we both once naively assumed that data and storytelling would converge to help prevent the imminent collapse…
By Peter Kalmus Read at The Guardian The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the…
By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post As the United States ends the year with the highest levels in new infections of the covid pandemic, the historical question naturally arises: Were a hefty portion of Americans entirely out of their…
The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.” By Peter Wehner Read at The Atlantic Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in…
Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post A sampling of headlines atop the influential Politico Playbook newsletter over the past month: “Let the Democratic freakout begin.” “Dems start to face the hard questions.” “Does the…
By Jill Filipovic Right-wing misogynists are coming for contraception, same-sex marriage, and all legal abortions — even in blue states. Here’s the top line of what you need to know about today’s Supreme Court arguments…
The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents. By Jonathan Haidt Read at The Atlantic Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics…
Opinion by Robert Kagan Read at Washington Post “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.”— James Madison The United States is heading into its greatest political…
By Randall Balmer Read At The Guardian The supreme court’s refusal to block Texas’s restrictive new abortion law suggests that the end to country-wide legal abortion might be at hand. For white evangelicals, the rank…
This Is How Theocracy Shrivels via New York Times by David Brooks Certain years leap out as turning points in world history: 1517, 1776 and 1917. These are years when powerful ideas strode onto the…
I’ll be In Conversation with John Pavlovitz on August 31 at 2 PM Eastern. Please join us! –Frank By John Pavlovitz Read at JohnPavlovitz.com Every single day I’m inundated with professed Christians who steadfastly and…
By Valerie Tarico Read at AlterNet Perhaps it’s been years or even decades since you left biblical Christianity behind. You may have noticed long ago that there are human handprints all over the Good Book.…
By Christopher Douglas Read at Religion Dispatches In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote, premised on the “Big Lie” that voter fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s…
This incredibly generous guest blog was written by my friend Samir Selmanović, Ph.D. PCC. Samir is, among other things, a Mindful Chef, Life Coach, and the Founder of Mystic Turn, a community of creative professionals…
Opinion by David Von Drehle Read at Washington Post Years ago, I lived in New York City and attended Grace Church, a historic Episcopal parish on Broadway at 10th Street. The beauty of the Gothic-style…
In 2021, I’m starting a new Conversation with the Artists, Authors, Activists, and Change-Makers who are shaping our world today. I hope you’ll Join Me! View All Upcoming Conversations Upcoming Conversations in July Join Frank…
Opinion By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the…
By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank Tonight, in Fulton County, Georgia, a judge allowed 9 Georgia voters and their experts to inspect copies of…
By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank This morning, as expected, the House Republicans elected Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Trump’s choice for conference chair, to replace…
Read at New York Times By Bernie Sanders “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military…
By Farhad Manjoo Read at New York Times I was reading about Jeff Bezos’ new boat last week when I began to understand one of my greatest failures as a pundit. This might seem an…
I’ve shared with you that in 2021, I want to start a New Conversation, and over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to some amazing and inspiring friends of mine, including…
In 1960, she walked past hateful protesters to become the first Black child at a Louisiana school – and was then taught alone for a year. She discusses fear, forbearance and her fight for a…
By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank In any normal era, the big story right now would be the country’s dramatic economic recovery from the…
By Matt Lewis Read at Daily Beast Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time. As Christians gather…
I grew up in the Evangelical right-wing, and my evangelist father was one of the architects of religious right, which went on to wage so many of the culture wars of the 1970s and 1980s,…
In the 1970’s and 1980’s, I was an evangelical right-wing activist fighting against women’s rights and gay rights and the rise of what we called, “secular humanism.” My father, a famous evangelical leader, has been…
In the 70’s and 80’s, I was part of a movement that sold fake family values, which helped define the evangelical movement and which I’ve spent the last 30 years speaking up and speaking out…
Opinion by Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post It is the sign of a sickness deeper than covid-19 that the defiance of public health guidance has become a political selling point in the Republican Party.…
The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side. By Nicholas Kristof Read at New York Times Illustration by The New…
by Frank Schaeffer Karla was 14 when she was almost killed in Honduras for refusing to join a gang. Her story is the story, not if Biden got a bed ready for her in time…
By Frank Schaeffer • President Biden has his eye on the most urgent short and long term issues of the moment—not just on what pundits, the Republicans or the most vocal Democrats want. • President Biden…
By Frank Schaeffer The Boulder gunman, 21, who has history of ‘paranoia’ and mental illness HAD NO PROBLEM BUYING A MILITARY STYLE MASS MURDER WEAPON just days before using it. This was because a Republican…
By Shadi Hamid Read at The Atlantic The united states had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout. From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about…
By The Editorial Board Read at New York Times When the federal government started withholding income taxes from workers’ paychecks during World War II, the innovation was presented as a matter of fairness, a way…
By Frank Schaeffer As we have seen, time and time again, White Evangelicalism is Misogyny wrapped in the Velvet Glove of Jesus. The Bible’s lies about sex and evangelicals’ love of guns: bad mix. It’s…
It’s time for Democrats and Progressives to start advocating for REAL Family Values, the kind that Joe Biden exhibits in the bill he just signed to save American Families. Biden’s vision, embodied in his American…
by Frank Schaeffer When will the media stop completely overlooking the glaring fact that Christo-Fascists were very much involved on the January 6th invasion/attack on our Capitol? They have long been a dagger poised over…
Opinion by Greg Sargent Read at Washington Post When the administration reopened a warehouse-like facility for migrant children in Texas this week, it caused a huge controversy on all sides. It inspired claims, mostly from the right, that President…
Evangelicalism, an Industry of Hate, is itself based on a Big Lie, and so the core message has to be dressed up anew occasionally for any of it to work, because if you place it…
A Guest Blog By Marlene Winell, Ph.D. On January 20, America’s religiosity was on full display. In fact, the religious parts of the U.S. Inauguration were excessive even by inauguration standards, which always includes an invocation…
By Heather Cox Richardson The following is via Heather Cox Richardson’s *essential* newsletter, Letters from an American. If you don’t already receive this in your inbox everyday, I urge you to subscribe. –Frank The crisis…
By Howie Klein Read at Down With Tyranny Trump never liked Pence and even tried to rescind his decision to invite him onto the ticket in 2016. But Pence was supposed to be Trump’s bridge…
If you’ve followed anything I’ve done, especially over the last five years, you know that I was part of the early “Male-Chauvinist, Religious-White-Right, Family Values” movement in the 70s and 80s, which led us down…
By S.V. Date Read at HuffPost WASHINGTON ― They raised the scaffolding up the side of the Capitol, tore down the flag of the United States and, to cheers from their fellow rioters below, hoisted…
By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Pat Robertson is openly calling for replacing the Constitution with the Bible as the law of the land. In the Constitution, you will not find any reference to the Bible…
Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post ROCHESTER, N.Y., police became the object of national opprobrium last year after videos surfaced showing the brutal treatment of a Black man who had been suffering from a psychotic episode.…
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Dan and Andrew of the Bible Buds Podcast and I had such a great time! We talked about chopping enough wood for a New England Winter, growing…
By Eric Tichenor There is one sentence from the ancient Hebrew Tanakh, within the Torah section (teachings, law), which perfectly illuminates the motivations of the seditionists who have created our current, modern-day political crisis. And…
By Thomas B. Edsall Read at New York Times It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that has come to be known as Christian nationalism. Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L.…
by Frank Schaeffer Biden addressed the terror threat directly: a “rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat” is what he called it. But the new president…
By Amy Brittain and David Willman Read at Washington Post Henry “Enrique” Tarrio had already publicized his plans to participate in the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. The 36-year-old Miami resident and national chairman of the Proud…
By Heather Ashby From Brazil to the United States, Hungary to New Zealand, right-wing extremist ideas and groups are posing a grave threat to democratic societies. Within this context, the ongoing support U.S. President Donald…
by Frank Schaeffer Trump slunk off to Florida and Biden took the oath of office under a clear blue sky. Now evangelicals are left to figure out how to move forward in a world that,…
By ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTERand EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Read at DailyMail Franklin Graham, the evangelist preacher and son of Billy Graham, wrote…
by Frank Schaeffer “The Trump people have to know they lost,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an expert on totalitarianism, argues, and “there has to be a consequence to losing a coup.” Otherwise, they will stage…
By Hemant Mehta Read Friendly Atheist at Patheos In case you need a reminder that the evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump and his insurrection are hardly a fringe group of extremists, here’s evangelist Franklin Graham condemning the 10…
By Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post As lawmakers prepared to impeach President Trump and Washington readied for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Cliff Dyrud wasn’t focused on man-made acts. He was listening for the words of…
by Frank Schaeffer The Trump years prove one thing: Evangelicals are everywhere and have turned against our democracy- en masse. The first casualty was decency. The second was our idea of manhood. Let that sink…
By Rachel Martin Read at NPR As fallout continues from the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol, Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a message for his…
There was a distinctly Christian nationalist presence at the U.S. Capitol riot. Some leaders are trying to publicly reject it — but others are staying silent. By Carol Kuruvilla Read at HuffPost The pulpit of…
By Carter Sherman Read at VICE News “A young woman was just shot in the neck beside me in the Capitol Building,” tweeted one anti-abortion activist known for creating “Baby Lives Matter” murals. When a…
By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham WASHINGTON — Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to kneel in the street and prayed in the name of…
Opinion by Michael Gerson The practical effects of the fascist occupation of the U.S. Capitol building were quickly undone. The symbols it left behind are indelible. A Confederate flag waved in triumph in the halls of a building…
By Frank Schaeffer Why isn’t the media telling the truth? The riot was led by Trump but made possible by thousands of demonstrators who came from White evangelical churches. Churches organized hundreds of groups in cars,…
By Frank Schaeffer America’s problem is not political. It is religious fanaticism Until America addresses our White evangelical delusion problem we will not have a functioning democracy. Evangelical MAGA churches want theocracy and are now…
By Frank Schaeffer Trump is abusing his office. Show him a law and he will break it. If America’s election laws are to be reestablished and respected Trump will have to face the legal consequences…
By Frank Schaeffer Now, I don’t think that very many people who watch this video will like it, and I don’t like it myself, because sometimes when you tell the truth about the situation we…
By Frank Schaeffer The U.S.A has the DEADLIEST day of the pandemic record; 3,903 die and over 125,000 are admitted to hospitals as CDC warns the post-New Year COVID surge will kill another 82,000 Americans…
Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon Read at AlterNet With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trumpon Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractorswhose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007had in recent years become a right-wing rallying…
When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…
by Frank Schaeffer It seems to me that NRA/open-carry/gun lobby AND de-fund the police activists are BOTH mistaken. We think of these movements as opposites. They aren’t. They both express individualistic impulses from people who…
Opinion by David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Not to be alarmist, but we should recognize that the United States will be in the danger zone until the formal certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on…
For Trump’s evangelicals resistance to cultural “progressivism” – “the liberal agenda” – “abortion/gay rights” mattered more than experience, credentials, know-how, integrity, honesty, even Christianity itself. Now-since Trump’s election loss-they even have abandoned U.S. democracy as…
Early in my life, because of the family I was born and raised in, I was fairly certain about the kind of life I intended to live, and how I was prepared to measure success.…
I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss. I come from an evangelical leadership family so I track what’s happening. NEW recurring theme: Angry evangelical chat room exchanges are increasing where…
By Ed Pilkington and Sam Levine Read at The Guardian On 1 December Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, stood on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta and let rip on Donald Trump. “Mr…
I escaped the Evangelical World for some place far less crazy: Hollywood. There I made four low-budget movies that you might catch on late-night cable. Then I wrote a novel called Portofino which got some…
By the Editorial Board Read at Washington Post PRESIDENT TRUMP’S lying about the election has become dangerous — and not just in the sense that it damages democratic norms. It also increasingly threatens to spur…
By Steven V. Mazie Read at Washington Post Steven V. Mazie is the Supreme Court correspondent for the Economist and professor of political studies at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. His most recent book…
Thumbs up as Rudy exits the hospital after receiving rare treatments after weeks of running around trying to steal a free and fair election, wiping his snotty handkerchief all over his hands and face and…
When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…
By Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE CORONAVIRUS vaccines are coming, which means the coronavirus vaccine disinformation is coming, too. In fact, it is already here. “Will New COVID Vaccine Make You Transhuman?” asks one conspiratorial…
Am I the only person already tired of Democrats who say the Biden team is “boring”? The only word I’m looking for is GRATITUDE for competent non-criminal, non-con-artist, smart appointments. I suspect in the Trump…
by William Rivers Pitt Read at Truthout.org Unless something truly extraordinary intervenes, we are on the cusp of what could become the bleakest winter in living memory. There are 166 days standing between us and…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post As partisans and analysts puzzle over the higher-than-expected turnout for President Trump (nearly 6 million fewer votes than for President-elect Joe Biden, but still high), they are poring over groups…
By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post One of the better speeches I helped produce for George W. Bush was never given. On election night 2000 — standing outside in the rain, at an Austin victory…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post President Trump isn’t really trying to overturn the election. He’s simply running one more scam before he leaves office that would enable him to enrich himself. That’s the…
My family knew the Bush family. Looking back, I can think of nothing that comes close to what Donald Trump is doing to stop President-elect Biden from taking part in Intelligence Briefings to prepare to…
Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them. By Adam Serwer For a judge with a brilliant legal mind, Amy Coney Barrett seemed oddly at a loss for words. Does…
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — The new congregation is gathered in a barn in Lenoir City, Tenn., with a roof that has a 60-foot American flag painted on it. And they are praying for a Trump landslide.…
Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE COLLAPSE of the local news industry offers manipulators a mother lode of opportunity: a populace full of questions and a gaping hole where they used to go…
I feel so honored to have been asked by my friends at Art Not War to be a part of this amazing Biden Harris 2020 movement through MoveOn. Please share and amplify this message with…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
The Case Against Donald Trump By The Editorial Board Read at The New York Times Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II. Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
Opinion by Jim Obergefell and Alphonso David Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, is director of individual giving at Family Equality. Alphonso David is the president of the Human Rights Campaign. Five years ago, every marriage in…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner Read at The Guardian Former insiders and religious scholars say scrutiny of Barrett’s connection to People of Praise is entirely legitimate Rebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the…
Opinion by Gretchen Whitmer Read at Washington Post When I addressed the people of Michigan on Thursday to comment on the unprecedented terrorism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men, some of whom were preparing to kidnap and…
People of Praise, a charismatic religious group, was recently revealed to have scrubbed its website of mentions of Barrett. Why? They are hiding her decades of leadership involvement in this pro- “male leadership” anti-feminist cult…
Details of link to Kevin Ranaghan raise fresh questions about supreme court nominee’s involvement with People of Praise Amy Coney Barrett lived in the home of one of the founders of the People of Praise…
By Emma Brown, Jon Swaine and Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post While Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has faced questions about how her Catholic faith might influence her jurisprudence, she has not spoken publicly about her involvement…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
By Emma Brown and Jon Swaine Read at Washington Post Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, publicly grappled decades ago with the tension Catholic judges can face between their…
By Dana Milbank Read at The Washington Post America, this is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning. For five years, my colleagues and I have taken pains to avoid Nazi comparisons. It is usually…
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? Story by Barton Gellman Read at The Atlantic There is a cohort of close…
Trump won’t commit to abide by election result. Evangelical and conservative Roman Catholics still back him anyway. Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics have just proved that conservative Christianity is incompatible with democracy. How do we…
Download an Illustrated PDF of this Article Listen to my 2008 interview, “Pro-Life – And In Favor Of Keeping Abortion Legal,” from Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Abortion Trump was told by evangelical pro-life leaders…
In the 70s and 80s, the Religious Right helped form a new political party in America: The Party of Theocracy. It became the Party of the rule of religion over civic life and the destruction…
Warning: QAnon’s silly lies: “deep state” is satanic, coronavirus is fake, Trump is truth/media is lies -have merged with evangelical ideology into a Trump-worshiping religion. The small QAnon freak-show risks expanding into a 100-million strong…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
Read at Down With Tyranny Down With Tyranny picked up on something from my latest video about Trump’s Narcissistic, Malevolent, Incompetent Jesus in relation to the latest data that Donald Trump is poised to lose…
Trump’s lying about pandemic has had unthinkable consequences. Congratulations Franklin Graham and the entire White “conservative” evangelical pro-Trump leadership: You’ve done the impossible- made the word “Christian” come to symbolize Narcissistic Malevolent Incompetence. How do…
Politico is doing an exclusive report today on new poll-study-11% of Evangelical and Catholic 2016 Trump voters are leaving Trump and going to Biden. Vote Common Good (a group I helped found run by my…
Make no mistake: this is Trump’s America, where protesters are shot by vigilantes as police look on By Richard Wolffe Read at The Guardian Donald Trump took a trip to a place called Biden’s America…
By David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Reconciling Donald Trump’s self-promoting “Art of the Deal” with the military’s reserved code of loyalty and service was always a stretch. In Trump’s early months in the White…
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. By JEFFREY GOLDBERG Read at The Atlantic When President Donald…
Opinion by Paul Waldman Read at Washington Post If you thought Stephen K. Bannon was going to end up in handcuffs, you might have predicted that it wouldn’t be for a small-time con. After all, Bannon…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
By supporting Donald Trump, evangelical leaders are failing us and failing the Gospel. Christian women must step up where our church leaders won’t. By Jerushah Duford Read at USA Today As a proud granddaughter of the…
Only a lopsided show of force would overcome undelivered mail, closed polling sites and Trump’s schemes. By Frank Bruni Read at New York Times When many of us question Hillary Clinton’s performance and strategy in…
Jerry Falwell Jr steps down. Falwell Jr. agreed to resign from Liberty University according to the university’s general counsel, after a series of sordid scandals rocked the school he has led since 2007. Liberty University was…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Aside from voting for Joe Biden? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and…
By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker Read at Washington Post Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump seized on the U.S. Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy. “A loser,” he repeatedly labeled one…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
Last year Senator Kamala Harris said that she believed the Justice Department would have no choice but to pursue criminal charges against Trump for the instances of apparent obstruction of justice outlined in the Mueller…
I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now we’re paying the price. By Wendell Potter Read at Washington Post In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about…
Opinion by Richard Blumenthal Read at The Washington Post Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Connecticut. The warning lights are flashing red. America’s elections are under attack. This week, I reviewed classified materials…
“It’s a collaborative fiction built on wild speculation that hardens into reality.” By Charlie Warzel Read at New York Times In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist…
According to latest Pew poll, 82% of white evangelicals STILL say they intend to vote for Trump. At least all other Americans now know who wants to trash America in order to hold onto access…
Read at Down With Tyranny Yesterday, Carlos Lozada reviewed Jean Guerrero’s new book, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda for the Washington Post, How Stephen Miller Went From Teen Troll To Trump Whisperer. He begins…
Trump got the emotions right. He won in 2016 because he understood that white evangelical and conservative Roman Catholic Republican voters were no longer motivated by any sense of hope; they were motivated by a…
Opinion by Ruth MarcusDeputy editorial page editor Read at Washington Post U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves couldn’t do justice for the plaintiff in his court, who had sued over police abuse. The Supreme Court won’t…
When confronted with the reality of over 160,000 Americans dead from his failure to contain the pandemic, the most this wretch can summon is, “It Is What It Is.” Donald Trump knows that he is…
Schumer seeks documents on appointment of Trump ally by JACOB BOGAGE THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Democrat late Sunday asked the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board to turn over communication with the…
Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit some compare to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan by Ed Pilkington In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border…
Please watch and share this video with everyone you know. We must get out in front of Donald Trump’s “October Surprise” if we’re going to survive whatever it is he’s willing to do to the…
As mail-in voting numbers are expected to surge, Trump’s new postmaster general is cranking back on overtime and deliveries. By Mary Papenfuss A watchdog organization is calling for an investigation and hearings amid concerns about…
If you’re an officer of the law, dress like one. Leave the soldiering to soldiers. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…
Hi, my name is Frank Schaeffer. I’m a writer who grew up as the son of an evangelical leader in the 1970s. I was his nepotistic sidekick. We toured the country essentially founding what became…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders By Joshua Partlow Read at Washington Post Before his political awakening this spring, Peter Diaz lived a quiet life near this leafy liberal…
A former leader of the department says Trump is politicizing the agency and putting the nation at risk. By Michael Chertoff Mr. Chertoff served as the secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush. Read…
More than 4 years ago, I made a video called something like, “Let Me Tell You About The Donald.” That video got millions of views, because people wanted to know about this guy who was…
Opinion by Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post In 2018, Bob Woodward recounted then-White House chief of staff John Kelly’s view of President Trump. “He’s gone off the rails,” Kelly said. “We’re in Crazytown.” Two years…
By Marissa J. Lang Read at The Washington Post PORTLAND, Ore. — He came to the protest with a question. He left with two broken bones in a confrontation with federal officers that went viral. Christopher David…
By Masha Gessen Read at The New Yorker On Sunday, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Donald Trump refused to commit to recognizing the outcome of the 2020 election. “I’m not going to just say yes,”…
Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? By Michelle Goldberg Read at New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the…
The Peaceful Transfer of Power is the Cornerstone of Our Democracy. Without it, there is no United States of America. On July 19, 2020, for the first time in our history, a United States President…
According to the Huffington Post, the CEO of one of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies issued a bleak warning about the prospect of a vaccine for the novel coronavirusby the end of the year, saying lawmakers touting…
I grew up in an evangelical, fundamentalist right-wing family that played a direct part in preparing America for the presidency of Donald Trump. We didn’t know it at the time, but in the 1970’s and…
Opinion by Max Boot Read at Washington Post Why is the United States the only wealthy country where novel coronavirus cases are hitting new highs while elsewhere the virus is being contained? A lot of it has…
Opinion by Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post In a storm of national challenges, perhaps the most urgent one is this: The president inhabits a different country from the rest of us. It is a land…
By Jonathan Greenberg Read at Washington Post People have debated whether Donald Trump is fascist since he announced he was running for president. In 2015, Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate that Trump, in his campaign speeches and Twitter…
It wasn’t because of our culture, it was because of our leadership. By Paul Krugman Read at New York Times When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international…
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus…
Monticello is shrine enough for a man who wrote that “all men are created equal” and yet never did much to make those words come true. By Lucian K. Truscott IV Read at New York Times…