Category: Politics
Behind Every Republican, a Billionaire
by Karoli Kuns | Aug 1, 2015 | PoliticsThe “money primary” continues, but it is becoming a “billionaire primary,” in which each candidate must secure the backing of at least one billionaire. The winner of the “billionaire primary” will be the beneficiary of a $900-million Koch brothers coordinated pledge to elect a Republican to the White House in 2016.
Ted Cruz and the Politics of Faith and Fear
by Lou Dubose | Aug 1, 2015 | PoliticsAmerican politics is not easy for believers. “This is a forum where our candidates can share their faith and testimony and not feel ostracized. Except maybe by the press,” Mary Frances Forrester told me. “Here, we can ask questions and candidates can include their faith when they’re talking about important social issues.” Forrester—a state […]
Mapping Organized Hate
by Hannah Harper | Aug 1, 2015 | PoliticsThe killing of nine congregants at the Emanuel A.M.E. church in South Carolina was a hate crime committed by a young white man influenced by the Council of Conservative Citizens. The CCC began in Mississippi in the 1950s as the Citizens’ Councils of America. It is “a modern reincarnation of the White Citizens’ Councils, […]
From the KKK to the CCC to Dylann Roof
by Chip Berlet | Aug 1, 2015 | PoliticsWhen Dylann Roof pulled a gun at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, his shots rang through history to the roots of the ideology of white supremacy, which justified genocide of indigenous peoples and the enslavement of black people from Africa. We deny this at our own risk. Roof attacked the Emanuel African […]
Of Dogs and People
by Marcel Ophüls | Jul 23, 2015 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsSwitzerland is a great country, if you like mountains, lakes, secret bank accounts, especially at 2,100 meters altitude, with a view of Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn, which I once climbed as a college kid—ages ago in 1948. As it happens, as I write, it is the 150th anniversary in Zermatt of the day […]