“Fanaticism is always harmful, especially in politics and religion, and even more so when they intersect. This week in Afghanistan, the Taliban enforced a law banning women from speaking in public, adding to the many oppressive measures they have imposed on the Afghan people. In the United States, far-right Christians who see Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as their messiahs are planning a similar version of the Taliban's Sharia law, known as Project 2025.

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