President Donald Trump and MAGA are in a meltdown over socialism. While Trump has made his political fortune fomenting fear, now he and MAGA are afraid of losing the midterms. One of the shibboleths they’re raising in response is “socialism.”...
The Trump administration has scrapped a Title IX rule adopted in 2024 to protect LGBTQ students from sexual harassment. The change was announced Sept. 28 and was to go into effect the next day without public comment. Title IX is…
Imagine driving west from Charleston, W.Va., to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on the coldest weekend you had ever experienced for a graduate music audition, only to arrive and find the professor you knew — well, not really knew, but…
The unarmed immigrant ICE officers shot in the back while he was driving for DoorDash in Texas last week now has been charged criminally with assaulting, resisting, interfering and impeding a federal officer. His immigration attorney says the Trump administration…
The pending execution of a woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2007 has been thrown back into legal limbo. An earlier trial judge’s finding that Melissa Lucio did not fatally abuse her daughter…
To paraphrase the late Tony Campolo, some of you already are more upset that I wrote the word “hell” in a headline than you are about the horror that headline addresses. Hang on to your pearls, because it’s time to…
Tucker Carlson is continuing his reversal on previous support for Donald Trump, this time telling NPR nihilism drove the president to start his war against Iran. Carlson, a former Trump ally and former Fox News host, spoke with NPR’s Steve…
Christian nationalists get so much attention that it’s important to focus on the majority of Americans who completely or partially disavow the ideology, sociologist Ruth Brunstein said. “The Trump administration has made both symbolic and institutional gestures toward enshrining a…
The Trump administration can use a controversial database to initiate state voter roll purges in the run-up to the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Sept. 25. The 6-3 emergency stay follows a recent federal appeals court decision that…
It all begins with a single screenshot from Instagram, Snapchat or some other social media. The photo itself is nothing remarkable — a casual selfie, a holiday memory, a sports photoshoot, a prom photo. You know the kind. Billions of…
Although I’m retired from vocational ministry, I still have church dreams several times a week. Some are positive. Some are negative. The fact that I still frequently dream about church — and that the dreams include a mix of both…
Does your church or faith community embrace social justice and revel in the U.S. Constitution? You know — slavery is bad, military can’t live in your house, freedom of speech and all that? And your church, I’m sure, preaches about…
Maggie Haberman is “a resident of Donald Trump’s head,” according to Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith. Haberman, a White House reporter for The New York Times, sat down with Smith for an hourlong conversation at the Texas Tribune Festival in…
