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The Public Eye, Winter 2018
It’s been a long year since Trump was elected, and the assaults on civil and human rights are almost too many to name. PRA Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos discusses where we are with The Public Eye in “One Year In.” Ajay Singh Chaudhary tracks the rise of France’s supposedly liberal savior, President Emmanuel Macron, in his article, “In the Court of the Centrist King." In “White Supremacy’s Old Gods," Shannon Weber describes how White supremacists use neopaganism as a belief system grounded in hypermasculinity, a sentimental connection to a mythic European past, and a justification for considering North America a White homeland. In “A Manual to Restore a Christian Nation That Never Was,” Frederick Clarkson explores the underreported world of local churches’ Culture Impact Teams.
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One Year In: A Q&A with Tarso Luís Ramos (Kathryn Joyce)
In the Court of the Centrist King: Emmanuel Macron and Authoritarian Liberalism (Ajay Singh Chaudhary)
White Supremacy’s Old Gods: The Far Right and Neopaganism (Shannon Weber)
A Manual to Restore a Christian Nation that Never Was (Frederick Clarkson)
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The Public Eye, Fall 2017
The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville this past August didn’t arise overnight. Rather, it was designed, over months, to be the largest gathering of its kind in at least a decade. Several weeks earlier, many of the same activists gathered in Tennessee, at the 27th American Renaissance conference. Our reporter, Donna Minkowitz, was in attendance, and writes how venues like AmRen helps lay the groundwork for more overt racist demonstrations elsewhere. In an online exclusive, writer Shane Burley delves into the fissures in the Alt Right/Alt Light coalition that predated and helped lead to the deadly rally in Charlottesville. In addition to resurgent White nationalism, an equally unsettling movement has been building more quietly around the call for a Convention of States that could radically rewrite the U.S. Constitution, as Peter Montgomery reports. Amid these broader battles, the Right continues to chip away at reproductive health care. Scholar Diane Paul looks at the emergence of an anti-abortion “regulatory moment” around pre-natal testing that uses disability rights rhetoric to ban more abortions. Lastly, Patti Miller interviews Alabama abortion provider Dr. Willie Parker about his new book Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice.
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Hiding in Plain Sight: An American Renaissance of White Nationalism (Donna Minkowitz)
Disunite the Right: The Growing Divides in the Pepe Coalition (Shane Burley)
Will Corporations, the Christian Right, and the Tea Party Get to Rewrite the Constitution? (Peter Montgomery)
Prenatal Diagnosis, Reproductive Rights, and the Specter of Eugenics (Diane Paul)
Life's Work: A Conversation with Dr. Willie Parker (Patti Miller)
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The Public Eye, Summer 2017
Sociologist and former civilian intelligence analyst James Scaminaci takes a close look at “Fourth Generation Warfare," a fusion of military theory and the Christian Right agenda that seeks to undermine the public’s confidence not just in the government and media, but in a commonly-accepted reality itself. In an exclusive excerpt from the provocative new book, Democracy in Chains, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean examines the intellectual legacy of conservative economist James Buchanan, and how it influenced a generation of right-wing activists. A longtime civil rights strategist Eric Ward writes in “Skin in the Game" about how antisemitism remains the driving force of White nationalism. Professor and writer Aaron Barlow's “The Triumph of the Lie” is a meditation on how political lying has perhaps found its zenith in the Trump era. “Captive Audience," by Tanya Erzen, looks at how conservative Christian prison ministries continue to create a two-tiered caste system within the corrections industry even while paying lip service to ideas of criminal justice reform.
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Battle without Bullets: The Christian Right and Fourth Generation Warfare (James Scaminaci III)
Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism (Eric K. Ward)
Captive Audience: How Prison Ministries Prioritize Salvation Over Justice (Tanya Erzen)
Charles Koch, the Cato Institute, and the Makings of a Right-Wing Empire (Nancy MacLean)
The Triumph of the Lie: How Honesty and Morality Died in Right-Wing Politics (Aaron Barlow)
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The Public Eye, Spring 2017
In our cover story, “Endgame," a deep-dive exploration of the state of bipartisan criminal justice reform efforts, Kay Whitlock reminds us that conservative support for progressive causes can come with a steep cost. “Between Trump and Putin” looks at both the democratic crises arising in countries where Russian actors have sought to influence elections as well as the less-examined ideological ties binding together this new “Right-Wing International.” “Trumpism and the Unstable Ground of Whiteness," explores the “split-screen” view of White America that, on one side, recalls a mythical past of economic glory, and on the other, the current reality of economic displacement and loss that’s easily blamed on scapegoated “others.” Lastly, populism is explored in a review of John Judis’s recent book, The Populist Explosion.
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Endgame: How “Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform” Institutionalizes a Right-Wing, Neoliberal Agenda (Kay Whitlock)
Between Trump and Putin: The Right-Wing International, a Crisis of Democracy, and the Future of the European Union (Christopher Stroop)
Trumpism and the Unstable Ground of Whiteness (Naomi Braine)
Review: The Populist Explosion (Matthew Lyons)
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Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The origins and ideology of the Alternative Right
Matthew Lyons’s “Ctrl-Alt-Delete,” is a thorough survey of the origins of the alt-right, a look at its constituent parts and beliefs at the present time, as well as observations about how its future relationship with the Trump administration may play out. Of particular interest, Lyons draws attention to the importance of sexism and misogyny within this movement, to its long-term “metapolitical” strategy, as well as to the tensions between the disparate groups that have found their home under its banner. Read the report HERE -
The Public Eye, Winter 2017
In "Birth of the Alt Right," David Neiwert traces the origins and ideology of this White nationalist movement. The conversation continues with Alex DiBranco's "Mobilizing Misogyny." For our commentary this issue, PRA Senior Research Fellow, Frederick Clarkson reminds us that "Religious Freedom is a Progressive Value." In our Q&A, Rachel Tabachnick interviews Jason Stahl, author of Right Moves.
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Mobilizing Misogyny (Alex DiBranco)
Religious Freedom is a Progressive Value (Frederick Clarkson)
Birth of the Alt Right (David Neiwert)
Right Moves: Historian Jason Stahl Opens a New Era of Scholarship on Conservative Think Tanks (Rachel Tabachnick)
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The Public Eye, Fall 2016
In our cover story, "Trump’s 'Second Amendment People'?," PRA Associate Fellow Spencer Sunshine considers how recent evolutions within the Patriot movement may have implications for the post-campaign reality. For our commentary this issue, “The Transformation of a Goldwater Girl," author and activist Kay Whitlock digs into her past as a young Right Winger living in a blue-collar Colorado town, to examine what the possibilities of political change mean in the Trump era. In “International Backlash: The Religious Right at the UN," contributor Peter Montgomery charts the daily assaults led by right-wing activists against LGBTQ equality at the level of international diplomacy. Lastly, Alex DiBranco writes, in “Whole Woman’s Health’s Unexpected Win for Science” that a aside from protecting reproductive rights, Whole Woman’s Health “breathes meaning back into science and cracks the foundation of this right-wing strategy.”
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Trump’s “Second Amendment People”?: The U.S. Patriot Movement Today (Spencer Sunshine)
The Transformation of a Goldwater Girl: Why It Matters in the Time of Trump (Kay Whitlock)
International Backlash: The Religious Right at the UN (Peter Montgomery)
Whole Woman’s Health’s Unexpected Win for Science (Alex DiBranco)
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Privatizing Massachusetts: The Right-Wing’s Blue State Game Plan
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THE PUBLIC EYE, SUMMER 2016
In our feature story this issue, PRA research analyst Cole Parke finds that the hostility toward transgender people isn’t merely backlash but rather the result of a carefully coordinated Christian Right campaign. In our commentary, contributor Gillian Kane reports on the latest gathering of the WCF, an international and cross-denominational coalition of “pro-family” activists brought together around shared opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights. PRA Senior Fellow Frederick Clarkson traces how for more than 40 years, dominionism—the broad term for the concept that God commands Christians to take control of the world’s politics and culture—has been helping to shape the direction and objectives of the Right.
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The Christian Right on the Gender Frontier: The Growing Anti-Trans Offensive (Cole Parke)
Georgian Homophobia Sets the Stage for the World Congress of Families (Gillian Kane)
Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight/ (Frederick Clarkson)
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Journal of Theology in Southern Africa special issue on Sexuality in Africa
In July 2016, the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s highly reputable and peer-reviewed academic Journal of Theology in Southern Africa (JTSA) published its special issue on Sexuality in Africa edited by PRA senior researcher, Dr. Kapya Kaoma and Dr. Michael Adee of the Global Equality Project. Read more here. -
Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement
This groundbreaking toolkit designed by Political Research Associates in partnership with Rural Organizing Project provides resources and tools to Oregon’s small towns and rural communities under siege from militias and other Patriot movements. Read report here. -
The Public Eye, Spring 2016
Author Andrea Ritchie explores how seeds of the broken windows theory emerged from unproven “folk wisdom” that, with the help of right-wing think tanks and leaders, was sharpened into the deadly force it is today. Then, Jonathan Hutson offers a uniquely first-hand look at how racial and religious double standards play out in the investigation and prosecution of threats of mass violence. Lindsay Beyerstein interviews author and professor Simone Browne on her new book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. And award-winning journalist David Neiwert, examines the ties between the rise of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Far Right.
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Black Lives Over Broken Windows: Challenging the Policing Paradigm Rooted in Right-Wing “Folk Wisdom” (Andrea Ritchie)
Racial Double Standards in a Mass Shooting Threat Case: David Lenio & White Nationalism (Jonathan Hutson)
Tracking Blackness: A Q&A with Dark Matters Author Simone Browne (Lindsay Beyerstein)
Trump and Right-Wing Populism: A Long Time Coming (David Neiwert)
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The Public Eye, Spring 2001
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The Public Eye, December 1992
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Theocracy and White Supremacy: Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values
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The Public Eye, March 1993
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Constructing Homophobia: Colorado’s Right-Wing Attacks On Homosexuals
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The Public Eye, June 1993
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The Public Eye, September 1993
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The Public Eye, December 1993
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The Public Eye, March 1994
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Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence – Part 1
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The Public Eye, June 1994
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Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence – Part 2
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The Public Eye, September 1994
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The Public Eye, March 1995
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The Public Eye, Summer 1995
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The Public Eye, Fall/ Winter 1995
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The Public Eye, Spring 1996
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The Public Eye, Summer 1996
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The Public Eye, Spring 1997
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The Public Eye, Summer 1997
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The Public Eye, Fall/ Winter 1997
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The Public Eye, Spring 1998
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The Public Eye, Summer 2001
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The Public Eye, Spring 2004
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The Public Eye, Summer 2004
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The Roots of Corporate Globalization in IMF/World Bank “Structural Adjustment” Policies
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The Public Eye, Winter 2016
Author Christopher Stroop analyzes how Russia has not only been a recipient of U.S. right-wing ideology - but an ideological exporter itself. Then, Victoria Law discusses the decades-long mistreatment of women of color by law enforcement and political leaders, and the violence committed against them. Professor Naomi Braine draws a direct line between the infiltration of Muslim communities & militarized street-surveillance and home invasion experienced by African American communities. And former PRA analyst Chip Berlet provides a detailed analysis of the Donald Trump phenomenon.
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Russian Social Conservatism, the U.S.-based WCF, & the Global Culture Wars in Historical Context (Christopher Stroop)
35 Years of Demonization: The criminalization of Black women. (Victoria Law)
Crime Control & Political Repression: From the war on drugs to the war on terror (Naomi Braine)
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: 'Trumping' Democracy: Right-Wing Populism, Fascism, and the Case for Action. (Chip Berlet)
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The Public Eye, Fall 2015
PRA economic researcher Mariya Strauss discusses how the Corporate Right cloaks its agenda by using the messaging of the Religious Right. Gabriel Joffe exposes the right-wing manipulation of AP U.S. History curriculum, and on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrine, Dani McClain interviews activist Shana Griffin about how housing policies have been used to displace people of color in New Orleans.
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"Faith-Washing" Right-Wing Economics: How the Right is marketing Medicare's demise. (Mariya Strauss)
History Wars Exposed: Right Wing influence in APUSH cirriculum (Gabriel Joffe)
Policies That Make People Disappear: Post-Katrina New Orleans Housing (Dani McClain)
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When Exemption is the Rule: The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right
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The Public Eye, Summer 2015
Senior fellow Frederick Clarkson discusses how the Christian Right is stepping up its game to circumvent civil liberties by creating exemptions to civil rights laws--twisting the meaning of religious freedom away from an affirming and pluralistic value.
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When the Exception is the Rule: Christianity in the Religious Freedom Debates (Frederick Clarkson)
Beyond the Hate Frame: An interview with Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski (Lindsay Beyerstein)
Latin America in the Crosshairs: Alliance Defending Freedom takes aim (Gillian Kane)
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Defending Immigrant Justice
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The Public Eye, Spring 2002
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The Public Eye, Spring 2015
Naomi Braine details how the differences between how Muslims are treated by law enforcement vs White suspects. Peter Montgomery reveals the Christian Right's biblical economic agenda. Alex DiBranco takes us into the world of conservative feminism, and Lynn Paltrow discusses fetal homicide laws that are putting women in jail for having legal procedures.
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How Indiana is Making it Possible to Jail Women for Having an Abortion
Biblical Economics: The Divine Laissez-Faire Mandate
Who Speaks for Conservative Women?
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Homosexuals & Abortionists Call Evil Good
“Rights groups also tend to undermine the democratic process by relying on courts rather than legislatures to obtain their demands. Because courts are more arbitrary and less responsive to the people, personal liberty is further endangered. … The attempt to make evil seem good by giving it an agreeable name is nothing new. God condemns those who call evil good and good evil. (See Isa, 5:20.) For example, when homosexuals call homosexuality a ‘sexual preference’ or when abortionists describe the act of destroying unborn infants as a ‘choice,’ they are calling evil good.” -
Pornography & Homosexuality, Special Privileges
“Pornographic films and books were legalized under the guise of ‘freedom of speech.’ At the same time, homosexuals began to clamor loudly for special minority privileges. The average American also had a difficult time escaping the immorality and violence promoted by the entertainment industry. … Judicial weakness. In the courts, the denial of personal responsibility led to a decline of justice. Instead of punishing criminals, judges began to give light sentences, which returned criminals to the streets to repeat their crimes.” -
The Public Eye, Winter 2015
PRA researcher Cole Parke exposes the history of the Illinois-based World Congress of Families, a right-wing group responsible for promoting laws criminalizing LGBTQ people & abortion around the world. PRA fellow Rachel Tabachnick writes about the lawmaker who passed the nation's first school voucher law, only to later be demonized by the Right's privatization juggernaut for warning against overreach. Author Robin Marty highlights the Right's anti-choice playbook of the last 30 years, and asks whether pro-choice could learn some valuable lessons from the Right's tactics.
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Natural Deception: Conned by the World Congress of Families
Opening Pandora's Box: The Rise & Fall of the Right's School Voucher Pioneer
Meet Joe Scheidler: Patriarch of the Anti-Abortion Movement
“Employers Feel Wildly Free to Pay People However They Want”: An Interview with Kim Bobo
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Repression and Ideology: The Legacy of Discredited Centrist/Extremist Theory
How a discredited social science model fuels efforts to expand government surveillance, infiltration, and disruption. And H police justify labeling dissenters, demonstrators, and ordinary Americans as "Terrorists."
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The Pioneer Institute: Privatizing the Common Wealth
The Pioneer Institute: Privatizing the Common Wealth, co-authored by veteran journalist Paul Dunphy and researcher Mark Umi Perkings, examines how the Institute’s work in promoting privatization in a host of areas including mental health care, education, charter schools, and school vouchers, tracing the movements of former Pioneer staff members through state government in the Weld, Cellucci and Swift administrations.
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Right Woos Left
Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected.
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The Public Eye, Fall 2014
PRA's special issue of The Public Eye magazine exposes the drive behind U.S. neoliberal policies and initiatives.
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From the New Right to Neoliberalism: The Threat to Democracy Has Grown (Jean Hardisty)
Manufactured Emergency: The Neoliberal Assault on Michigan (Jane Slaughter)
Neoliberal Feminists Don't Want Women to Organize (Sarah Jaffe)
The Shell Game of Contingent Employment (Lombos, Leberstein, Mendez)
To Shock the Heart of the Nation (Mariya Strauss)
How Colorblindness Co-Evolved With Free-Market Thinking (Michael Omi & Howard Winant)
An Uncharitable Choice: The Faith-Based Takeover of Federal Programs (Fred Clarkson)
Globalization and NAFTA Caused Migration From Mexico (David Bacon)
Friedrich von Hayek, Thomas Piketty, and the Search For Political Economy (Kim Phillips-Fein)
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The Public Eye, Summer 2014
Researcher Mariya Strauss reveals a new coordinated effort by the U.S. Chamber and other Corporate Right groups to target low-wage worker organizing. Plus, senior fellow Fred Clarkson identifies a disturbing rise in calls for martyrdom, violence, and theocratic war - including from some high-level GOP operatives.
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Dark Money, Dirty War: The Corporate Crusade Against Low-Wage Workers
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Constructing Campus Conflict
Antisemitism and Islamophobia on U.S. College Campuses, 2007-2011
Antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses are manifested in a complex set of interactions among a number of different players. This report seeks to explore issues and incidents in a way that will ameliorate aggression, intimidation, and assaults on campus. Read the report.
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The Public Eye, Winter 2014
Kathryn Joyce highlights the concerted effort to fight the Indian Child Welfare Reform Act and a new coalition emerging. Plus, associate fellow Spencer Sunshine reveals what is fact and what is fiction about right-wing involvement in Occupy Wall Street.
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The Adoption Crunch, the Christian Right, and the Challenge to Indian Sovereignty
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The Public Eye, Fall 2013
PRA fellow Rachel Tabachnik blows open the doors on nullification, and the fight for the soul of the GOP between neo-conservatives and paleo-conservatives being engineered by Ron Paul. Plus, senior fellow Fred Clarkson's explosive new research on how state-based conservative State Policy Networks are influencing U.S. politics.
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Nullification, Neo-Confederates, and the Revenge of the Old Right
EXPOSED: How the Right's State-Based Think Tanks Are Transforming U.S. Politics
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Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right
Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium
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The Public Eye, Summer 2013
In the Summer 2013 issue of The Public Eye, Sofia Resnick explores the Right's response to the Guttmacher Institute, and Fred Clarkson discusses the emerging Catholic-evangelical alliance. The issue also includes a commentary by Kristin Rawls on the Moral Mondays protests, an exclusive interview with Roger Ross Williams, and a peek into the PRA archives.
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The Charlotte Lozier Institute Plots New Strategies in War on Women
Christian Right Seeks Renewal in Deepening Catholic-Protestant Alliance
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Defending Public Education
This Activist Resource Kit (ARK) provides an overview of the right-wing attack on public educations and a detailed examination of five key issues: vouchers, charter schools, school privatization, bilingual education, and parental rights. This primer and resource guide is designed for both in-depth study and quick reference. -
The Public Eye, Spring 2013
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The Public Eye, Spring 2013
In the Spring 2013 issue, Jay Michaelson examines how the Christian Right is using the "religious liberty" debate to combat the advancement of same-sex marriage, antidiscrimination laws, access to contraception, and abortion rights throughout the U.S.
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Spiritual Warriors With an Antigay Mission: The New Apostolic Reformation
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The Ex-Gay Movement in Latin America
Therapy and Ministry in the Exodus Network
PRA researchers' new report investigates the division brewing in the ex-gay movement in Latin America following Exodus International's public reversal of its stance on conversation therapy, and finds cause for caution and concern. Read more -
Redefining Religious Liberty
The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights
Dr. Jay Michaelson's new PRA report argues that the right's “religious liberty” arguments are calculated to subvert the traditional progressive framing of freedom versus discrimination, effectively accusing women and the LGBTQ population of infringing on the right of conservative Christians to discriminate against them. Download the PDF here, or you can read it in HTML here. -
The Public Eye, Winter 1999
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The Public Eye, Summer 2000
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For Faith and Family: Christian Right Advocacy at the United Nations
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The Public Eye, Summer/Fall 1999
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Takin' it to the States: The Rise of Conservative State-Level Think Tanks
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The Public Eye, Spring 2000
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The Public Eye, Spring 1999
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Clinton Conspiracism and the Continuing Culture War: What is Past is Prologue
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The Public Eye, Fall 2002
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The Christian Right's "Defense of Marriage:" Democratic Rhetoric Antidemocratic Politics
Scared Chaste, Scared Straight: Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education in U.S. Schools
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The Public Eye, Spring 2003
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Rac[e]ing Abroad: Exploring Racism in/and U.S. Foreign Policy
Homeland Security: Low Intensity Conflict Targets Non-Citizens
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The Public Eye, Fall 2003
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"If You Love Children, Say So": The African American Anti-Abortion Movement
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The Public Eye, Winter 2004
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The Hunt for Red Menace
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The Public Eye, Winter 2013
Jandira Queiroz exposes the ACLJ offshoot in Brazil, David Dodge analyzes why marriage equality won at the polls in 2012, and Miriam Zoila Pérez looks at Washington DC's anti-transgender discrimination campaign.
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Anti Legal Group Targets Home of World's Largest Pride Parade
Why Marriage Won: Right-Wing Messaging and the 2012 Elections
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The Public Eye, Summer 2008
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Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics
How Roman Catholic Neocons Peddle Natural Law into Debates about Life and Death
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The Right's Marriage Message
Talking Tolerance, Marketing Inequality
Looking at more than a decade of right-wing messaging in marriage equality ballot initiatives, this briefing paper will help advocates prepare for the Right's regrouping after its 2012 defeats. Read more -
Defending Reproductive Justice
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The Public Eye, Spring 2005
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The Public Eye, Fall 2005
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Conservatie Campus Organizing: Growing Pains or Arrested Development?
Thinking About Elephants: Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff
The Montana Human Rights Network: Fighting the Far Right with Research
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The Public Eye, Winter 2005
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George Wallace and the Rightward Turn in Today's Politics
The Rise of Dominionism: Remaking America as a Christian Nation
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The Public Eye, Spring 2006
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When Adversaries Become Allies: The Fight Against the Patriot Act and the Surveillance State
The Globalization of an Agenda: The Right Targets the UN with its Anti-Choice Politics
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The Public Eye, Summer 2006
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White Power Cyberculture: Building a Movement
Politicized Science: How Anti-Abortion Myths Feed the Christian Right Agenda
Back to the Future: GOP Revives Anti-Gay Marriage Campaign for '06
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The Public Eye, Fall 2006
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The Art of the Slur: From Joe McCarthy to David Horowitz
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The Public Eye, Winter 2006
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Tax Revolt as a Family Value: How the Christian Right is Becoming a Free Market Champion
Tearing Down the Towers: The Right's Vision of an America Without Cities
Whither the Christian Right? How Religious Conservatives Succeeded and Failed in the 2006 Elections
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The Public Eye, Spring 2007
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History is Powerful: Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters
Becoming Americano: The Ascent of the New Latino Right
Truth and Reconciliation Comes to the South: Lessons from Greensboro
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The Public Eye, Summer 2007
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Gay Conservatives: Unwanted Allies on the Right
Churches Under Seige: Exposing the Right's Attacks on Mainline Protestantism
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The Public Eye, Fall 2007
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Male Victims of Abortion: New Theme of Right to Life Committee
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The Public Eye, Winter 2007
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First Amendment Blues: Police Tactics Suppress Free Speech
Heritage is Hip to Culture: Think Tank Turns to Family Values
Living in the Gap: The Ideal and the Reality of the Christian Right Family
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The Public Eye, Spring 2008
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Pushed to the Alter: The Right-Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion
The North American Union: Right-Wing Populist Conspiracism Rebounds
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The Public Eye, Fall 2008
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Abstaining from the Truth: Sex Education as Ideology
Leaderless Counterterrorism Strategy: The "War on Terror," Civil Liberties, and Flawed Scholarship
American Life League's Pill Kills Day Links Birth Control and Abortion
Right-wing Ballot Initiatives Target Unions, Women, Immigrants, and Gays This Fall
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The Public Eye, Winter 2008
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Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
Saving Monsignor Ryan: Refuting the Myths of Neoconservative Roman Catholic Economics
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The Public Eye, Spring 2009
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Younger Evangelicals: Where Will They Take the Christian Right?
New Tactics and Coalitions Take Aim at Planned Parenthood
Tying the Not: How the Right Succeeded in Passing Proposition 8
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The Public Eye, Summer 2009
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From Movements to Mosques, Informants Endanger Democracy
Remembering the New Right: Political Strategy and the Building of the GOP Coalition
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The Public Eye, Fall 2009
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The Politics of Schism in the Catholic Church
Janice Shaw Crouse: A Warrior With Words
The More Things Change: Continuing Threats to Reproductive Freedom
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Defending Democracy
Activist Resource Kit
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Defending Justice
Activist Resource Kit
Defending Justice is an Activist Resource Kit that helps progressive activists understand and resist the Right, the State, and other forces that contribute to the growing system of courts, surveillance, policing, and incarceration. To visit the companion website, go to: http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/ -
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The Public Eye, Fall 2012
Amy Stone analyzes the religious freedom argument in 2012 same-sex ballot initiatives, Brian Tashman analyzes a legal arm of the Christian Right, and Frederick Clarkson exposes Rev. Samuel Rodriguez as far from the moderate he pretends to be.
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Rev. Samuel Rodriguez: Not So Moderate
The New Religious Freedom Argument: Gay Marriage in the 2012 Election
The Legal Arm of the Christian Right: Inside the American Center for Law and Justice
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Decades of Distortion
The Right's 30-year Assault on Welfare
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UNdoing Reproductive Freedom
Christian Right NGOs Target the United Nations
In her investigation, Pam Chamberlain profiles how Christian Right groups have attained "consultative" status in UN deliberation, which they wield to oppose women's right to control their reproductive lives. Vital reading for anyone who wants to understand how U.S. social conservatives are going global in their assault on choice. Read more -
Pushed to the Altar
The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion
This report tells the story of how a right-wing social movement took power in the Bush administration and installed unproven anti-poverty policies to promote an ideal two-parent, heterosexual family. PRA founder Jean Hardisty presents a comprehensive examination of the ideological roots of policies that incentivize marriage. Read more -
Platform for Prejudice
How the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative Invites Racial Profiling, Erodes Civil Liberties, and Undermines Security
Thomas Cincotta's report is a comprehensive investigation of the post-9/11 "information sharing environment" among law enforcement, explaining how Suspicious Activity Reporting violates civil liberties without yielding any greater security. Read more -
Challenging the Ex-Gay Movement
An Information Packet
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Calculated Compassion
How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy
Surina Khan investigates how, under the cover of a supposedly compassionate approach, the Christian Right integrates its attempt to convert gays to heterosexuality with its theocratic agenda.Read more. -
Running Against Sodom and Osama
The Christian Right, Values Voters, and the Culture Wars in 2006
Chip Berlet and Pam Chamberlain explore how the Christian Right fused together an external threat of "Islamofascism" and an internal boogeyman of gay rights to try to help right-wing candidates in the 2006 elections. Available in full HTML HERE. -
The Public Eye, Winter 2009/Spring 2010
In the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of The Public Eye, Rachel Tabachnick analyzes the Christian Zionists' relationship with Jews, Kapya Koama examines the U.S. Christian Right's attack on LGBT rights in Africa, and Gillian Kane exposes a global, right-wing network working against reproductive and sexual rights.
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The U.S. Christian Right and the Attack on Gays in Africa
The New Christian Zionism and the Jews: A Love/Hate Relationship
Intelligence Fusion Centers: A De-Centralized National Intelligence Agency
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The Public Eye, Summer 2011 (pdf)
In the Summer 2011 issue of the Public Eye, Lauri Lebo examines the anti-immigrant network behind Arizona's SB-1070, Abby Scher traces the Right's war on unions, and Arun Gupta examines the populist nature of the Tea Party movement.
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The Attack on Unions: Right Wing Politics and Democratic Possibilities
Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law SB1070: Where Did It Come From, Where Is It Going?
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The Public Eye, Spring 2012
In the Spring 2012 issue, P. Adem Carroll describes how Muslim communities are organizing against Islamophobia, Pam Chamberlain studies the Tea Party's anti-LGBT rights agenda, and Eartha Melzer reports on the consequences of the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence gathering in Detroit.
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Muslim Community Resistance: Organizing & Advocacy in a Time of Struggle
It's Their Party: How the Tea Party Sustains the Anti-LGBT Right
When Secure Communities Meet Borders Security: Looking at Michigan’s Fusion Centers
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The Public Eye, Summer 2010 (pdf)
Rachel Tabachnick reviews how the Christian Right works to spread fundamentalist ideology through public school textbooks and Kathryn Joyce deconstructs the myth that abortion is "black genocide."
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From Schoolhouse to Statehouse: Curriculum from a Christian Nationalist Worldview
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The Public Eye, Fall 2010 (pdf)
In the Fall 2010 issue, Julie Quiroz-Martinez describes the right-wing fight against green jobs and environmental and racial justice, Darwin BondGraham explores how the crisis of poverty and injustice in New Orleans, predated Katrina, and Kapya Koama looks into how the U.S. religious right has introduced anti-gay attitudes into Africa.
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The Long Hurricane: The New Orleans Catastrophe Predates Katrina
Who's Colonialist? African Anti-Gay Politics in the Global Discourse
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The Public Eye, Winter/Spring 2011 (pdf)
In the Winter/Spring 2011 issue, Sherrilyn A. Ifill tracks the conservative attack on 14th Amendment birthright citizenship, Pam Chamberlain exposes how fathers' rights groups threaten women's gains, and Jim Burroway profiles Scott Lively's crusade against LGBT rights.
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Fathers' Rights Groups Threaten Women's Gains-And Their Safety
The Conservative Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Lively's Lies: A Profile of Scott Lively
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Reconsidering Hate
Politics and Policy at the Intersection
From the killing of Matthew Shepard to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, horrific incidents of violence against members of marginalized communities galvanized the social justice movement to pursue measures to prevent such acts — including pushing for “hate crimes” legislation. A new PRA discussion paper by Kay Whitlock illuminates the history of hate crimes statutes and questions the efficacy of framing the issue in terms of “hate.” Read more -
Deliberate Differences
Progressive and Conservative Campus Activism
This report uses social movement theory to examine both conservative and progressive campus activism, activists, and their organizations and also observes the impact of rightist and leftist social movements from the larger society on student groups.Read more -
Marriage as a Cure for Poverty?
Social Science through a "Family Values" Lens
Dr. Jean V. Hardisty, founding director of Political Research Associates, exposes the questionable social science justifying George W. Bush’s campaign to promote marriage as a cure for poverty. The report is a companion to Dr. Hardisty’s earlier report Pushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion. Read more -
Toxic to Democracy
Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating
Does government healthcare mandate euthanasia for Grandma? Was Obama really born in Kenya and therefore an illegal President? How do right-wing political pundits contribute to the recent rash of violence linked to White supremacist ideology? PRA Senior Researcher Chip Berlet addresses these questions and more, shedding light on the corrosive use of demonizing language that scapegoats certain groups. Read more -
Globalizing the Culture Wars
U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, & Homophobia
A groundbreaking investigation by Rev. Kapya Kaoma of Political Research Associates exposes how the U.S. Right mobilizes African Protestant clergy to protest any movement towards LGBT equality in U.S. mainline churches while promoting an agenda that criminalizes homosexuality in Africa. Read the report in HTML here,or download here. -
Manufacturing the Muslim Menace
Private Firms, Public Servants, & the Threat to Rights and Security
PRA’s comprehensive report by Thomas Cincotta details a systemic failure to regulate content in nationwide counter-terrorism training, spreading Islamophobic messages through law enforcement. Read more. -
Colonizing African Values
How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa
Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma's 2012 investigative report on how American religious conservatives are building organizational strength to promote homophobia and attacks on reproductive rights in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more -
Resisting the Rainbow
Right-Wing Responses to LGBT Gains
Even with victories for equality, homophobia remains one of the right-wing’s most effective tools for mobilizing political support. From the Tea Party to the Mormon Church, this report provides LGBT advocates with vital knowledge on new players, key threats, and principal strategies. Read more -
The Public Eye, Summer 2012
In the Summer 2012 issue, Rachel Tabachnick exposes the Right's success in diverting public funds to private and often religious schools, Kapya Kaoma profiles the U.S. culture wars' appearance in Zambia, and Kay Whitlock questions the "hate frame."
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Reconsidering Hate: A Forum on the “Hate” Frame in Policy, Politics, and Organizing
The Culture Wars Come to Zambia: Intercepting the International Human Rights Agenda
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