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The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism

Posted on January 6, 2022 · Add Comment

New story at The New Republic:

On a Monday night in early November, in a basement ballroom at the Hilton Orlando, four conservative intellectuals—a nationalist, a neocon, a “political Catholic,” and a “why I left the left” guy—sat on stage, drinks in hand, to hash out [...]

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How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6

Posted on January 6, 2022 · Add Comment

New story up at Salon:

In the midst of the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Jacob Chansley, the bare-chested man in Viking horns who’s come to be known as the QAnon Shaman, stopped his fellow marauders in the Senate chamber to pray. “Thank you Heavenly Father [...]

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The Pope Welcomed Biden. So Why Are US Catholic Bishops Waging a Holy War?

Posted on November 26, 2021 · Add Comment

New story up at Mother Jones: 

On November 17, 2020, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop José Gomez, announced that Joe Biden, who had just been elected president, presented “a difficult and complex situation for the church.” A devout Catholic, Biden nonetheless had expressed support, albeit [...]

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Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It.

Posted on September 30, 2021 · Add Comment

New story up at The New Republic:

This May, in a speech at Michigan’s deeply conservative Hillsdale College, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran sketched out a few principles for Republicans to follow. Conservatives, he said, should no longer consider the primary purpose of school to be training students for employment; [...]

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The Neighbors

Posted on August 19, 2021 · Add Comment
Why is an apocalyptic sect buying property in the Adirondacks?

New story up at Adirondack Life:

There’s the white clapboard house with the big cross over the woodpile, sitting on a lonely stretch of road between tiny Willsboro and tinier Reber amid nearly 185 acres of abandoned farmland. There’s the [...]

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The Turning Podcast : Episode 7, Silence

Posted on June 29, 2021 · Add Comment

I’m so proud to have helped report this investigative episode of the new Rococo Punch podcast The Turning: The Sisters Who Left, released through iHeart Radio, about serious and previously unreported allegations of sexual abuse within Mother Teresa’s religious order the Missionaries of Charity.

Thousands of women gave up everything [...]

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The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”

Posted on April 23, 2021 · Add Comment

New story up at Mother Jones:

After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.

“Nobody is checking the law or trying to come to an understanding to see if this [employee] is telling the truth,” she says. “Nobody is [...]

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Deep State, Deep Church: How QAnon and Trumpism Have Infected the Catholic Church

Posted on October 30, 2020 · Add Comment

New story up at Vanity Fair:

For Catholic “radical traditionalists” at odds with a pope they consider too progressive, it was “the splash heard around the world,” as one right-wing news site put it; a purge “which may well go down in history as the moment the counter-revolution started.” For [...]

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She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids

Posted on July 8, 2020 · Add Comment

New story published as a collaboration between The Marshall Project and Longreads:

Tara Coronado, a 45-year-old mother of four, sat in a nondescript Austin courtroom six years ago during a custody fight with her ex-husband, biting her tongue as the judge dressed her down. 

“There is [...]

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No Money, No Lawyer, No Justice

Posted on June 22, 2020 · Add Comment

New story at The New Republic:

In 2017, the Social Security Administration abruptly told 70-year-old Kevin Green they were halting his monthly payments—his only income—until they recovered an alleged overpayment from some 10 or 12 years before. They didn’t explain the overpayment [...]

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