Dear President Trump, I have a hot flash for you: Religion never left America. What’s more, those of us who’ve practiced our respective religions faithfully for generations aren’t about to let you force your white “Christian” nationalism down the throats…
Chicago churches urge calm resistance ahead of expected federal intervention
The Rev. Marshall Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family and protest as the city readied for an expected federal intervention.
Trump says he’s bringing back prayer to schools
The president who famously said he’s never prayed to ask for God’s forgiveness claimed Sept. 8 he’s going to reinstitute prayer in public schools — a practice outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. Ever since the court’s ruling…
Donald Trump is neither strong nor masculine as president
Donald J. Trump may be the richest and oldest president in U.S. history, but beneath the glittering headlines lies a portrait of profound emotional and moral poverty — a leader marked not by strength, but by defensiveness, dishonesty, vanity and…
The lunatics are now in charge
Not all ideas are equally valid, and not all beliefs are equally true. There is reality and there is fantasy. A heavy dose of “both sides are valid” denial of reality has set up the United States of America for…
Trump on Israel: ‘They’re not winning the world of public relations’
President Donald Trump said that backing for Israel in Congress had declined during the country’s military campaign in Gaza, telling The Daily Caller that Washington’s pro-Israel lobby no longer has the hold on Capitol Hill it once did.
Warnings escalate about Trump and RFK Jr.’s threat to public health
President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are “threatening the lives” of the American people, according to the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control work on immunizations who resigned this week. “I am unable to serve in…
Trump wants death penalty for all murders in DC
As U.S support for the death penalty reaches new lows, President Donald Trump wants to make capital punishment the norm in the nation’s capital. “If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we’re going to be seeking the death…
Despite Trump’s words, most Americans believe racism is widespread
Despite the MAGA campaign to rewrite American history to deemphasize racism, a supermajority of Americans still believes racism against Black people is widespread in the United States. The latest Gallup poll finds 64% of Americans saying racism against Black people…
The sin of sloth takes a deadly turn
One of the seven deadly sins of Western Christianity is the sin of sloth. It often is characterized as “laziness,” which some aim at certain racial or economic groups using terms like “lazy” or “shiftless” to characterize their character. In…
Trump administration wages war on inconvenient facts
Facts can be stubborn things, but the Trump administration has declared war on those facts that don’t support its narrative. When confronted by inconvenient facts, it fires the messengers and sues the fact-checkers. On Aug. 1, the Bureau of Labor…
Trump supporters are wired differently, researchers report
There are social and psychological reasons supporters of President Donald Trump show less empathy toward the minorities and enemies he targets, according to new research. “Conservative political ideology is associated with social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, psychopathic propensities, and other…