One week before the publication of his conversion memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith , Vice President JD Vance unveiled a custom-built chicken coop at his residence, the Naval Observatory. Most coverage treated the new coop as a…
It’s really hard to sympathize with Senator Mike Lee, whose entire persona seems to have gravitated to online trolling of others from a most aggressively MAGA perspective. His X handle is @BasedMikeLee , so he’s not trying to hide from…
Writer-activist-teacher Emmaia Gelman ’s fascinating history of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a more than 100-year-old organization founded by German Jewish immigrants to the United States, situates the group squarely on the political Right. In The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial…
Between one speaker’s defense of burning witches and another (visibly pregnant) speaker’s declaration that hell should be afraid because she’s “bringing forth a threat to his kingdom,” this past weekend’s Turning Point USA women’s summit produced some wild headlines. But…
The question is no longer purely hypothetical. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring in Trump v. Barbara on whether the executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and people on temporary visas can take effect…
Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized religions from 211 to 31. Military.com broke…
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura displaced for the genre. Encyclical letters were once…
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura displaced for the genre. Encyclical letters were once…
In a recent New York Times “Ideas” piece , “Maybe America Needs Some New Cities,” housing and urban development reporter Conor Dougherty writes of a new kind of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship that could, he believes, solve America’s housing crisis: futuristic…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum , or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor . And like Leo XIII before him, the current pope seems…
Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says Homelander, the psychopathic all-powerful superhero in…
On May 17, the New York Times published a guest essay by Katya Ungerman—“We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages” — attributing a strange surge of both conventional religious observance and supernatural belief to a variety of now-familiar technological…
Another mass shooting. This is America . More dead Muslims. This is America. These are stories I have written about for a quarter of a century. The only reason it hasn’t been longer is because I’m relatively young. I’m only…
In 2015 Illinois became the first state in the country to pass an anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) law. A little over a decade later the state is in a fight to be the first to repeal one. At stake are…
