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Issue Brief: This Month in LGBTQ Justice

Every Friday, PRA brings you a monthly update on a different social justice issue. This week, we are recapping the last month in LGBTQ Justice.

Medicaid Expansion and the Right, Part 3

Long-Term Costs and Economic Benefits

The economic arguments against expanding their own Medicaid programs by conservative Governors and state legislators neglect to factor in the long-term benefits of expanding Medicaid coverage.

Medicaid Expansion and the Right, Part 2

The Role of Conservative Think Tanks

However absurd, vague, or speculative these politicians’ excuses for not expanding Medicaid may be, they leave millions of people with no access to healthcare.

Medicaid Expansion and the Right, Part 1

Using Clinton-era Talking Points Against Families & Minorities

In June 2012, The Supreme Court found the expansion of Medicaid an unconstitutional coercion of states’ rights, leaving the decision firmly in the hands of the states. Medicaid expansion is set to go in effect in this month, and as of now, only 25…

Guns and Racism

The Critical Issue We're Not Allowed to Discuss

As gun control advocates push for stricter gun laws, and pro-gun groups continue to push back, there’s one important aspect of the debate conservatives tend to fear discussing: race.

Article

Profiles on the Right: Louie Gohmert

Though there are many politicians on the Right that rely on fear and paranoia to mobilize their base, perhaps none is more consistently provocative than U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas.

Profile on the Right

Different Countries, Common Threads

Connecting the dots in the global surge of anti-LGBTQ attacks

The passage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill last Friday brings renewed attention to the plight of LGBTQ people in Africa.

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Marriage Equality Comes to New Mexico

New Mexico has become the 17th U.S. state to approve marriage equality, and the first state in the Southwest United States to do so.

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RELEASE: Uganda Passes Anti-Homosexuality Bill

The Uganda Parliament has passed the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill, first proposed in 2009 and condemned by the international human rights community, President Obama, and other international dignitaries.

Press Release

Review - Home is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering

Intensive Mothering

Mothers overwhelmingly bear the burden of the “immense emotional, temporal, and physical workloads required to homeschool,” Lois explains. This, she devotes her ethnography to these mothers, bypassing the more commonly researched homeschooled …

Book Review

The Anti-Democratic Policies of the Right’s “Defense of Marriage”

Today, in the face of approximately 52 percent support for marriage equality in all 50 states, the Right continues to cite populist support in their endeavors.

The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule"

An Interview with Claire Conner

A sign that says "America is too great for marxist socialism. Restore your limited. Constitutional Government. www.jbs.org"

Claire Conner’s parents were early members of the John Birch Society (JBS), an aggressively right-wing organization that was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch. Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right (Boston: Beacon Press,…

Q&A

Profiles on the Right: Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX)

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), headquartered in Fort Belvoir, VA, is a national nonprofit organization ostensibly advocating for the “ex-gay” community.

Profile on the Right

Issue Brief: This Month in Racial and Immigrant Justice

Every Friday, PRA brings you a monthly update on a different social justice issue. This week, we are recapping the last month in Racial and Immigrant Justice.

East vs. West? Russia, Ukraine, and the Anti-Gay Wedge

In the debates leading up to this current political moment, the LGBTQ community became a useful scapegoat for pro-Russia factions. Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to decriminalize homosexuality following independence from the Soviet Union…

Article

Long Walk To Freedom

What African Sexual Minorities Can Learn from Tata Mandela

Mandela’s vision extended to all those who continue to pursue long walks to freedom. Mandela championed the human rights of all people, whether Black, White, straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersex. He lived to see the day when…

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From a Place of Privilege

Abortion, Male Victims, and Ultrasounds

A gathering of the NRLC met for several days to strategize. In addition to the typical arguments against abortion, some newer ones were on the docket. Most significantly, the idea that a woman should be required to have an ultrasound before she is…

Article

Into the Whirlwind

The emergence of the Tea Party and its de facto takeover of the GOP have been a shock to many mainstream pundits and politicos. The domination of Tea Party ideology is complete enough to have forced a partial government shutdown, raised the threat…

Article

"Klansville USA"

An Interview with David Cunningham

a group of people marching, holding signs.

David Cunningham became interested in the Ku Klux Klan while conducting research for his dissertation at the University of North Carolina. He originally focused on how the FBI dealt with the Civil Rights Movement, but his research led to a…

Q&A

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Race and Child Care in Mississippi

Jean V. Hardisty challenges simplistic understandings of racism in her new report, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Race and Child Care in Mississippi. Founder and president emerita of Political Research Associates, Hardisty analyzes how the…

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