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Christians
Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump's America

Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump’s America

The Conversation

By S Jonathon O’Donnell | – Are demons active forces in American life and politics? That is what a large number of evangelicals in the US believe and are increasingly vocal about. Since the 1980s, growing numbers of evangelicals have given the fight against demons a key role in their spirituality and their politics. Known […]

Democracy
For anyone wavering about Voting: The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest

For anyone wavering about Voting: The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest

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By Simon Jackman | – With less than two months until the US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads incumbent Donald Trump in the bulk of opinion polls. But poll-based election forecasts have proved problematic before. The polls were widely maligned after the 2016 election because Trump won the election when the majority of […]

Climate Crisis
Earth may Pass dangerous 1.5℃ (2.7° F.) Heating Limit for First time by 2024

Earth may Pass dangerous 1.5℃ (2.7° F.) Heating Limit for First time by 2024

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By Pep Canadell and Rob Jackson | – The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organisation warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 – and the risk is growing. This first overshoot beyond 1.5℃ would be temporary, likely aided by a […]

Donald Trump
Attacking even the Study of Slavery History, Trump is Running for President of White Nationalists

Attacking even the Study of Slavery History, Trump is Running for President of White Nationalists

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By Henry Giroux | – In what appears to be a blatant appeal to the white supremacists in his base, President Donald Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots. As Peter Baker, […]

Iran
Secular Shift: In Iran's Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

Secular Shift: In Iran’s Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

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By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki | – Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline. Reliable large-scale data on Iranians’ post-revolutionary religious […]

Christianity
Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

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By Adrian Bardon | – U.S. Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a Pew Research Center poll from May 2020, while 62% of religiously unaffiliated U.S. adults agree that the Earth is warming primarily due to human action, only 35% of U.S. Protestants […]

Far Right
19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

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By Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, and William Parkin | – On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism was fundamentally altered. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety-six people were killed as the direct result of attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Thousands more, including many first […]

Environment
Paint some Blades Black: A Simple Hack for Solving the bird problem with Wind Turbines

Paint some Blades Black: A Simple Hack for Solving the bird problem with Wind Turbines

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By Jethro George Gauld| – With climate change threatening many of the world’s species with extinction, a transition from fossil fuels is urgently needed. But some argue that the rush to replace coal power with wind could endanger birds that have a habit of flying into turbines. While wind farms aren’t quite the bird slayers […]

Climate Crisis
Another Pandemic Looms: Global Heating will put new Areas at Risk for Malaria

Another Pandemic Looms: Global Heating will put new Areas at Risk for Malaria

The Conversation

By Mark Smith and Chris Thomas | – Of an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This proportion is more or less the same for the 405,000 malaria deaths globally. That’s why there are huge efforts underway to provide detailed maps of current malaria cases in Africa, […]

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