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Sep 23 2022
Opinion
Republicans Are Ready to Declare the United States a Christian Nation
Outside the Truro Synagogue in this historic New England community stand markers that honor the legacy of one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States. It was to the Jews of Newport that George Washington, in his capacity as the nation’s first president, confirmed the commitment of the new republic to respect all religions and to maintain the separation of church and state that
The NationMay 09 2022
Analysis
Pro-Abortion Protesters Inflict Mother's Day Violence and Target Supreme Court Justices' Homes
The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion signaling the end of Roe v. Wade made Mother's Day an anxious one for churches and pro-life groups across the country.
In Madison, Wisconsin, vandals attacked the offices of the pro-life group Wisconsin Family Action on Sunday with an arson attack and a spray-painted warning that “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either.”
Earlier
CBNApr 22 2022
Opinion
There’s No Such Thing as a Value-Neutral Education
The public schools are meant to serve — whom?
Writing in the New York Times, Frank Bruni thinks he has an answer: “all of us.”
“The schools . . . exist for all of us,” Bruni writes, “to reflect and inculcate democratic values and ecumenical virtues that have nothing to do with any one parent’s ideology, religion or lack thereof.”
This is naïve and ahistorical.
The
Kevin D. WilliamsonApr 04 2023
Perspectives Blog
America's Dysfunctional Amnesia Continues to Cost Innocent Lives
Rebecca Sheehan (Lean Right Bias) is a political blogger and Emmy-nominated television journalist.
“Mass shootings were once so shocking they were impossible to forget. Now they've become so frequent it's hard to remember them all.” – Scott Pelley, CBS News
When a shooter mercilessly guns down six innocent people (including three children), the world ought to stop turning, at
Rebecca SheehanOct 13 2022
News
Abolish the FBI? Some Experts Say It's Time
The FBI that many older Americans remember was so respected and admired that there have been as many as 32 different TV shows about the agency throughout the years.
The FBI that some pro-life activists face today shows up at their doors with guns drawn.
Heavily armed FBI agents have arrested at least 12 pro-life activists in the last three weeks for allegedly violating the FACE
CBNMay 28 2021
Analysis
QAnon is spreading amongst evangelicals. These pastors are trying to stop it
When Pastor James Kendall stepped on to the stage of his small church in Madera, California he knew that day's sermon was going to take him in a direction unlike most. He had seen some troubling Facebook posts from members of his congregation. God, he says, was telling him speak out and warn his flock.
"I don't like to get off track and off the Bible," Kendall said during a sermon on
CNN DigitalJul 11 2022
Perspectives Blog
Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Religious Liberty
Religious freedom has long been intertwined with hot-button issues from gay rights to abortion. When the line between religion and politics gets blurry, some call to uphold church-state separation, while others believe that religion can never be entirely separate from political beliefs.
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Clare Ashcraft
Aug 05 2022
Opinion
The Super-High-Stakes 2022 Race No One Is Talking About
Charlie Crist’s pitch is easy to understand. The first thing to know is that Ron DeSantis, widely thought to be Donald Trump’s heir to the GOP throne, won Florida’s governorship by less than half a percentage point in 2018. The second is that what happens in Florida matters everywhere, since it’s the crown jewel of battleground states in presidential elections. The third is that Crist — a
New York MagazineAug 27 2022
News
Black voter turnout has declined in Wisconsin. Democrats see reversing that trend as key to Senate victory.
MILWAUKEE — After Mandela Barnes gave a brief but impassioned speech at a predominantly Black church here on a recent Sunday morning, parishioner Amber Smith said she was “very impressed.”
She said the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate gave “very strong remarks,” and she praised him for having spoken “with conviction.”
But Smith, a 30 year-old Milwaukee resident who works
NBC News DigitalSep 07 2022
News
Beijing's Plan to Control the World's Data: Out-Google Google
Few cases better show how U.S.-China relations have deteriorated in the age of Big Data than the response Wang Jiang got when he offered, at the height of the pandemic, to set up labs for COVID-19 testing in the U.S.
Wang is a known quantity in the world of U.S. biotech. He cut his teeth as a genetics researcher at the major public research universities of Texas, Iowa and Washington.
Newsweek