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Religion Dispatches
This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration…
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Religion Dispatches
This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller , the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between $100…
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Religion Dispatches
This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a…
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Political Research Associates
Q&A with Isaac Kamola on Manufacturing Backlash
Isaac Kamola discusses the findings from his report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, and how anticolonial theory and organizing lessons can guide strategies to block far-right forces.
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Public Eye
Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
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Public Eye
Author Q&A with Jennifer C. Berkshire
Jennifer C. Berkshire’s interview with PRA about her and Jack Schneider’s new book, The Education Wars, provides a road map for defending public education.
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Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Watch the roundtable discussion on sex and relationships education and strategies to stop the Right from dismantling the right to education.
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Political Research Associates
The Aftermath of Scandal at Liberty University
Jerry Falwell Sr co-founded Liberty University as a place of fundamentalist education. When Falwell Jr. took over, the scandals that followed him left Liberty University reckoning with misdeeds under the Falwells’ tenures.
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Public Eye
Christian Homeschooling and R.J. Rushdoony’s Legacy in the Age of COVID
COVID-19 increased the number of parents considering homeschooling. Heacock examines how the Christian Right has used homeschooling to further their dominionist agenda, while also pushing their agenda in public schools.
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Public Eye
The Koch network has worked to undermine the rights and liberties of non-white communities through a decades-long assault on public education, with Critical Race Theory most recently in its sights.
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