Al Jazeera's documentary series, Fault Lines, that focuses on the United States, provides at 21 minute episode titled Church of Trump examining Evangelicals and their unholy alliance with Donald Trump. From their summary:
Fault Lines goes inside the US religious right to explore the grassroots strategy and the powerful institutions fueling its resurgence.
The investigation reveals the movement's secretive state-level legislative strategy, known as Project Blitz, as well as the Republican party's plan to stack the federal judiciary with conservative judges.
Ultimately, Fault Lines explores what's driving this movement's support for President Trump and what their success could mean for the future of the country.
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This is fascinating. To Adapt to a Changing Climate, Kyrgyzstan Revives Its Nomadic Past by Ariel Sophia Bardi at UnDark.
Kyrgyzstan, a country of only six million people and one of the world’s lowest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, has been disproportionately impacted by climate change. And the effects are devastating some of the country’s quietest corners, where human life is still intertwined with — and wholly dependent on — the natural world.
The litany of environmental changes — from desertification and diminishing biodiversity, to natural disasters and erratic bursts of weather — might recall a bleakly familiar narrative in many, if not most, parts of the globe. But they present a unique challenge to a country like Kyrgyzstan, flanked by the Central Asia steppe and the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges and populated only a hundred years ago by nomadic tribes, who left a minimal ecological footprint.
That minimalism was lost for generations. During more than 70 years of Soviet rule, which ended in 1991, the state forcibly organized free-roaming pastoralist clans into collective farms. This meant all but the oldest Kyrgyz remain largely estranged from traditional knowledge systems and animist-influenced attitudes toward nature. Now, faced with a rapidly urbanizing landscape and unseasonable weather bursts, many Kyrgyz are trying to revitalize their nomadic traditions in order to adapt. Their bespoke solutions have emerged as counter-narratives to the discourse on climate change as a global problem, emphasizing the need for local interventions — especially in regions that have been the hardest hit.