The NLRB’s Book of Exodus
A little-known ruling has crushed unions at religious colleges and universities all over the country.
19477 Articles by: Jonathan Sas
Jonathan Sas has worked in senior policy and political roles in government, think tanks, and the labor movement. He is an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, the Tyee, and Maisonneuve.
Labor’s Great Awakening Continues
After a year of huge strikes and rising militancy, workers look to carry the momentum forward into 2024.
Dealignment of the Faithful?
It’s tempting to see America’s declining religiosity as nothing but good news for the Democrats. The real picture is more complicated.
In Astoria, Queens, an Iftar in Solidarity With Palestine
Last month, socialist NY Assembly member Zohran Mamdani organized a public iftar in his district in Astoria, Queens, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza — a modest attempt to build international solidarity at the most local political level.
The Holy Spirit Has Nigeria in Its Grip
Nigeria’s Pentecostal pastors have brought their angels and devils into the halls of power.
The Left Side of the Church
The Catholic Church is responsible for a litany of injustices. But the glorious tradition of liberation theology can’t be forgotten.
The Junta and the Monks
Buddhist nationalism has been a central tenet of Myanmar’s politics since independence. A new alliance against the military dictatorship could finally change things.
All-Natural Holistic Germany
A century after Rudolf Steiner, Germany is still in thrall to a spiritualist message that emphasizes the healing power of nature.
Peoples Temple 2.0
South Korea is home to hundreds of Christian offshoots. Many of these groups are more cult than church.
(More) Church Conversions
Even in Europe, where so many have fought and died for Christianity, the churches are closing their doors.
Maxime Rodinson And the Muslim World
French historian Maxime Rodinson transformed our understanding of the Muslim world with books like Muhammad and Islam and Capitalism. We revisit his pathbreaking work.
God’s Own Country
Global religious demographics are in the midst of a slow but inexorable shift.
Losing My Religion
In a region of high inequality and Catholic dominance, Uruguay is twice an outlier.
Wahhabism on Wheels
Saudi Arabia exports oil and Islamic fundamentalism around the world.
Megarich Megachurches
Everything about Nigerian Pentecostalism is huge — the churches, the checkbooks, and the political clout.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Meet the princely imam financing neoliberal development in Central Asia.
Richer Than God
Sophisticated Wall Street tactics have blessed the LDS Church with billions.
Why New Atheism Failed
The New Atheists had reactionary politics and a distorted view of science, but they owe their demise to a more fundamental flaw in their ideology: religion can’t explain all the world’s problems.
Learning From Pat Robertson
Once marginal and reviled, evangelical Christians became a vital political bloc in the 1980s thanks to resolute organizing.
The Epoch Times’ Unholy Journalism
How a new religion’s pro-Trump rag became one of the world’s fastest-growing newspapers.