Democratic-led cities across America are being assaulted by masked men. These federal agents under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security — some Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and some Customs and Border Protection agents — are carrying out…
RFK Jr. and the perfect storm of idiocy threaten us all
What would it have been like to be on a fishing trawler in the Atlantic in the perfect storm? A “perfect storm” is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. The phrase became the title of a bestselling book in…
ChatGPT shows Trump’s Thanksgiving message is a platter of lies
The president of the United States continued his pattern of using key holidays to lob false accusations at his opponents and enemies, this time throwing in a slur that drew international headlines. In his Thanksgiving Day post on Truth Social,…
For first time ever, US refused to acknowledge World AIDS Day
On a crisp 41-degree morning, more than a hundred people gathered beneath the AIDS Memorial in Greenwich Village to mark World AIDS Day, observed every Dec. 1 since 1988. The memorial — an 18-foot white steel canopy built in 2016…
NAMB reneges on life insurance promised to forced retirees
“We planned our funerals around that promise.” Bert Ross remembers the paperwork he signed in December 2010, when he and nearly a hundred others were pushed out of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board in a large downsizing….
Do you hear what I hear?
As Thanksgiving dinner dishes clink and clatter this Thursday afternoon, millions of Americans will open their phones and begin playing Christmas music. One of the EP’s they’ll likely see is “A Soulful Christmas,” which contains four songs by a new…
Christianity Today hires a Black woman and the white right goes nuts
Within hours of Christianity Today announcing that longtime pastor and scholar Nicole Massie Martin had been elected its next president and CEO, a familiar chorus of online racist and patriarchal critics declared the flagship evangelical magazine is no longer really…
Documentary spotlights healing for ex-cons through arts
As a former public access TV producer, I have a certain affection for low-budget documentaries. Filmmaking often is an expensive medium, and high-profile documentary filmmakers use all the same tricks and tools as blockbuster directors to great ends. They can…
Let’s change how we talk about immigrants
Conversations about immigration, especially on social media, reveal hard lines in the sand, a closed binary line of thinking, along with disgust, anger and outrage. Bring up immigration at the family Thanksgiving gathering, and the turkey may burn in the…
Meet the ‘transvestigators’
Erika Kirk has been no stranger to online scrutiny in the months since her husband, Charlie, was murdered. When she appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” just five days after his memorial service, many people were surprised at how bright…
Maybe you should read the comments because they’re now reality
“Never read the comments,” the sage wisdom of the internet says. That’s especially true on X, where internet trolls thrive unregulated. But sometimes the comments give you a sense of what some segment of the population is thinking and what…
Will Zohran Mamdani institute Sharia law in New York?
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, the largest city in the United States, and will take office on New Year’s Day 2026. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. He…