PRA's End of Year Reading List
The first anniversary of the Capitol storming is an occasion to take stock of the robust current state of America's insurrectionist, anti-democratic factions, those that would sooner dispense with democracy altogether than lose their hold on power.
In January, Chrissy Stroop produced the definitive argument on proselytizing and its moral implications. Are we all proselytizing all the time? How can we talk about this age old practice?
Charlie Kirk founded his group, Turning Point USA, with a focus on free markets and right-wing economics, but as the group's membership and donations grew, Kirk has pivoted to include a new position: a Christian nationalist one.
Throughout 2022, Katie Kelaidis published consistent insightful reporting on the war in Ukraine. She gave RD readers a closer look at the religious dimension to the war that might otherwise be missed by the media, including this piece from April 2022.
2022 saw even more mass shootings on a devastating scale; Thomas Lecaque wrote for RD on the disturbing ties between Christian nationalism and the continued arming of The United States.
The Christian Right is using a new tactic to deny the international right to abortion: sovereignty.
This fall, Fred Clarkson and Andre Gagné put together a series of explainers to help inform reporters covering the New Apostolic Reformation. This article kicked off the series, but parts 2 and 3 are must-reads as well.
This past year, the Right continued to push the bounds of acceptable political discourse, thanks in no small part to the work of pundits like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Annika Brockschmidt has produced incredible reporting as a watchdog of America’s slide toward fascism.
PRA has developed an interactive map to identify 274 candidates in the 2022 midterm election cycle who represent a definable Electoral Far Right, the insurrectionist edge of American politics.
PRA has updated our interactive map for the 155 candidates in the 2022 midterm election cycle who appeared on the general election ballot and who represent a definable Electoral Far Right, the insurrectionist edge of American politics.
