Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson died yesterday, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among queer people from ...

"Joel's Army"—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political ...

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland ...

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of Ariel, deep in the occupied West Bank, to pledge support for full Israeli annexation of ...

Christian Smalls, a Black labor organizer who took on Amazon and won, just risked his life trying to bring aid to Gaza. He was not met with headlines but with fists. Smalls joined the Freedom Flotilla ...

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts for boot-cut jeans—and the new master race apparently shops at American Eagle. Because nothing says “the ...

But mainstream media has largely shrugged off the lasting damage done by Hogan’s virulently white supremacist support for Trump. As author and professional wrestling expert Josephine Riesman observed, ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

If you haven’t seen this week’s season premiere of South Park, you might be forgiven for thinking it’s mostly about Pres. Donald Trump’s small penis and dysfunctional sexual relationship with Satan.

Almost immediately after Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the federal right to an abortion, more than a dozen states passed legislation effectively banning abortion. Soon thereafter, Jewish ...

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 ...

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, a case brought by Damon Landor after officers at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center ...