Release: Judge condemns Scott Lively’s efforts to render very existence of Ugandan LGBTIs illegal, finds US law offers no redress

By Political Research Associates, on June 8, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 8, 2017 Historic Case Exposes Right-Wing Activist’s Campaign of Persecution in Uganda Contact: Greeley O’Connor, g.oconnor@politicalresearch.org; 617-666-5300 On Monday, Judge Michael Ponsor of the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Massachusetts affirmed that Scott Lively, a Springfield Read More

Endgame: How “Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform” Institutionalizes a Right-Wing, Neoliberal Agenda

By Kay Whitlock, on June 6, 2017

Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Spring 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Could it be possible…that white supremacy as an ideological formation has been nourished, rather than attenuated, by notions Read More

Review: The Populist Explosion

By Matthew N. Lyons, on May 25, 2017

Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Spring 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Review of John B. Judis, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (New Read More

Seventeen Years of Tracking the World Congress of Families

By Cole Parke, on May 22, 2017

The World Congress of Families XI meeting in Budapest, Hungary is on May 25 -28. PRA first reported on the World Congress of Families (WCF) in 2000, noting its role within the coalition of Christian Right groups that was beginning Read More

Trumpism and the Unstable Ground of Whiteness

By Naomi Braine, on May 15, 2017

Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Spring 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Trumpism is built on a split-screen image of life for the White middle and working classes: a contemporary Read More

Between Trump and Putin: The Right-Wing International, a Crisis of Democracy, and the Future of the European Union

By Christopher Stroop, on May 11, 2017

Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Spring 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. “So. Washington is ours. Chișinău is ours. Sofia is ours. It remains but to drain the swamp in Read More

Chechnya’s LGBTQ Assault and the Consequences of “Pro-Family” Contradictions

By Cole Parke, on May 10, 2017

Chechnya is a small, independent republic of the Russian Federation. (Map: Wikicommons CC BY-SA 3.0) In early April, reports of atrocities being committed against LGBTQ people began to emerge out of Chechnya, a small, independent republic of the Russian Federation Read More

#First100Days Crash Course: Week 14

By Political Research Associates, on April 30, 2017

Coinciding with Trump’s first 100 days in Office — a period of time historically used as a benchmark to measure the potential of a new president — PRA will share readings, videos, and tools for organizing to inform our collective Read More

Profile on the Right: Paul McHugh

By Political Research Associates, on April 27, 2017

Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University (and former director of the school’s Department of Psychiatry as well as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital), has positioned himself as a go-to source for right-wing Christian organizations Read More