From the Editors: ‘Is It Armageddon Yet?’

THIS YEAR MIGHT BE among the hottest on Earth. Free and fair elections are being subverted in the U.S. According to Scot Nakagawa, Christian nationalism is like a bus ready to run down trans rights on the road to authoritarianism, and the U.S. military chaplaincy program has been co-opted by people preparing to usher in the apocalyptic end times through American troops. Just like kids on a long metaphorical road trip, some of us may be asking, “Is it Armageddon yet?” Or maybe we’re asking, along with poet Tyler Truman Julian, “When is the time to flee?”