Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the Trump administration’s first week of energy policy and the effects it is likely to have on the environment. Spoiler: it’s bad!
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Editorial: “The stare that petrifies injustice”
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Last week, Amy Hardy-McAdams invoked Medusa as a champion for the oppressed during a prayer at the Tulsa Oklahoma City Council meeting. It didn’t take long for the state’s Republican governor to attack her for it. What does this incident say for the future of Paganism in public life?
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Editorial: Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools wants to spend $3.3 million on Trump Bibles
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Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma superintendent of schools, is angling for a cabinet position in a potential Trump administration. Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott looks at how he’s planning to punch his ticket: by spending millions of tax dollars on Bibles endorsed by Donald Trump.
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“They’re eating the cats” is a lie with a long history, and Pagans should be concerned
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TWH’s Editor-in-Chief, Manny Moreno, responds to the claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating the pets of other residents. The baseless claim has deep roots in racism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance, and has been levied against practitioners of Vodou and modern Paganism.
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Editorial: Honoring the Dead
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It’s easy to disregard the dead. They don’t have the ability to move you along if you’re loitering where you aren’t wanted. They have no control their own physical bodies any longer, nor over the space where they are interred. They can’t opt out of your pictures. They can’t tell you no.
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Editorial: Failing the Dead
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What surprises me most about the reactions to Trump’s use of Arlington for political theater is the silence from religious and spiritual communities. While many individuals have voiced their opinions on social media — some with more nuance, others with a creative mix of four-letter words — there has been little to no response from religious organizations.