Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, seemed horrified and fragile as she spoke a few days ago about being afraid of Donald Trump and his retribution tactics. I understand the fear. I respect the fear. Sometimes, it is good to allow fear…
Numbers, numbers, numbers
According to the Cleveland Clinic website, arithmophobia is a negative response to numbers or numerical tasks that some people exhibit — a condition that evokes such reactions as chills, nausea, heart palpitations and dizziness. I hope you are not one…
Trump making good on Project 2025 goal to abolish Head Start
The Trump administration wants to cut early education opportunities for needy children and make them and their families hungrier and unhealthier in the process, critics charge. According to a draft budget document first reported by the Washington Post, President Donald…
Remember: The first goal of Project 2025 is to create a ‘baby boom’
Can the Trump administration encourage more women to have more babies, reverse a nearly two-decades-long decline in the U.S. birth rate, and avoid civilizational catastrophe? The Heritage Foundation and some Christian groups hope so. Heritage’s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint…
‘Anti-Christian bias’ task force focuses solely on grievances of evangelicals
The first meeting of the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias featured only conservative evangelicals complaining about alleged mistreatment by the Biden administration. According to a Department of Justice news release, the April 22 meeting led by Attorney…
Trump’s antisemitism campaign worries American Jews
President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat antisemitism on college campuses worry American Jews, who say Trump could hurt more than he helps. But Trump’s moves have been applauded by politically conservative Christians and others opposed to liberalism in higher education….
Due process is not some woke aberration
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is clear: “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” Note the choice of word — “person,” not citizen. That distinction is no accident. It…
I’m still haunted by stories from the first Trump term
In 2019, I was running an award-winning teen theater company in Dallas. We’d made our mark by creating original plays from first-person interviews on particular issues. In 2019, there was no more pressing issue than the border crisis. That spring,…
Despite court order, Trump still denies unaccompanied children legal counsel
Unaccompanied migrant children continue to face immigration judges without legal assistance despite a court order to resume the service. More than a dozen nonprofit legal organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration in March to renew $200 million…
If Republicans harm Social Security, they will pay for generations
The American public is having economic nightmares. Anxiety grows over the price of eggs, uncertainty about tariffs, inflation and tens of thousands of workers being fired. At the apex of the anxiety sits the proposed 2025 federal budget. If the…
Earth Day: Trump’s EPA promotes evangelical myth that environmentalism is a false religion
Today’s Earth Day commemoration is the first since the United States officially adopted the falsehood that conservative evangelicals have embraced for decades: That people concerned about the environment and climate change are motivated by anti-Christian religion. Lee Zeldin, President Donald…
Trump’s attack on Harvard is Christian universities’ ‘worst nightmare’
The Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard are Christian universities’ “worst nightmare,” according to retired Christian university sociology professor John Hawthorne. What Trump and his allies are doing in demanding radical changes from Harvard could establish a precedent that could be…