Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has ...

In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this ...

Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books! (I am, ...

In the wake of the 2024 United States presidential election, “Give us Barabbas” emerged in progressive Christian social media ...

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Thus far much of the commentary about Trump's cabinet and staff picks alternates between "He values loyalty above all else" and "He wants to generate chaos and break the federal government." There’s ...

Numerous recent reports have warned the public about far-right sheriffs’ plans for the upcoming election….

I’ll confess something up front. I hate election postmortems. I’m not sure anybody likes them, especially after an election that may be catastrophic for one’s particular demographic. But given that, ...

On Tuesday, Trump announced Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth as his new secretary of defense. The guy in the image above. It’s not a parody; it’s from the cover of his 2020 book, American Crusade.