critical race theory

As a scholar of American evangelicalism, I often spend my time writing and teaching about the overt beliefs and practices that White conservative Protestants employ to further entrench Christian…

I know, it’s easy to dismiss Trump’s extremist rhetoric as just another occasion of “Trump being Trump.” Because the deluge is unrelenting, paying attention is emotionally and morally exhausting. But…

Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion…

In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become…

For decades, the American Right has claimed children’s rights are anathema. They undermine the family , they threaten parents , they could destroy the United States and cause the downfall of Western…

On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, which included the horrific murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians. In response, Israel launched an…

When he started to do the research for his new book, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy, Robert P. Jones had a different idea in mind. But, once he’d reached back as far as he could into his family’s…

As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its…

Recently, the Biden administration released the U.S. National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, an unprecedented report advancing a broad policy agenda to combat, as its name suggests, antisemitism. As…

When I need to know what’s wrong with the world and who to be outraged at I turn to the words of Ted Cruz , Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) or even Ben Shapiro . Why? Because they certainly give…