A new film that reframes the pivotal lead-up to D-Day as a character study amid a high-stakes strategic dispute speaks to current events, illuminating how inconvenient truths clash with modern political rhetoric. Premiering last weekend at No. 7 on the...
On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump commuted the sentences of the paramilitary members who had been convicted of (or who had pled guilty to) seditious conspiracy for their part in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S….
Donald Trump issued a slew of immigration-related executive orders on “day one” ranging from closing the southern border and ending birthright citizenship to closing asylum and refugee admissions. Trump has claimed immigration was the issue that got him elected and…
Why are white evangelicals so conditioned for cruelty? After all, the debacle that was Donald Trump’s first day in office included ending birthright citizenship, erasing transgender and intersex people, threatening to colonize our neighbors, lying about the 2020 election results,…
President Donald Trump’s blanket pardons handed out on “day one” of his presidency to those convicted of crimes on January 6 are vastly unpopular with the American people. Even through Trump continues to spread the lie that the 2020 presidential…
Over the weekend, I finished reading Jerome E. Copulsky’s new book, American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order, just in time to watch the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump into the office of the presidency. As Copulsky demonstrates time…
We all saw it: President-Elect Donald Trump raised his right hand to take the oath of office for the second time, while Melania Trump slowly approached him, holding two Bibles. Yet, as Trump recited the Oath of Office, he never…
With Monday’s inauguration, we have entered a new phase of the testing of our faith. I’m supposed to be a regular BNG columnist, but I’ve only written one piece since the election — one about our need to resist what…
One person in Washington, D.C., who doesn’t seem to fear President Donald Trump is the Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde. In a homily at the traditional “Service of Prayer for the Nation” held the day after Trump’s inauguration, the…
Even though public support for the death penalty is waning, President Donald Trump wasted no time after his Jan. 20 inauguration bolstering federal support for executions and making sure states have access to the deadly medications needed to carry out…
On “day one,” President Donald Trump shut the door on legal immigration of well-vetted refugees into the United States. While much of Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric focused on what he called “illegal” immigrants — people he uniformly equated with crime…
The convergence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration offers a snapshot of how politically and spiritually divided the nation has become, said Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights champion and CEO of The…
During his inaugural address Jan. 20, Donald Trump sought to assuage a long-held fear among religious conservatives. “My recent election,” he said, “is a mandate to completely and totally reverse … all of these many betrayals that have taken place…
