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The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which…

Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional , it closely resembles the stalled SAVE Act , which requires voters to present a passport…

I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To call someone “godless” was a way to make me curious, not a way to convince…

UPDATE 3/20/25: According to an AP report, President Trump will sign an executive order today formally directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the…

Writing in The Atlantic on the disastrous February 28 meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Tom Nichols comments that Trump, “ambushed a loyal ally, presumably so that he…

Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “…

On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former…

Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency…

One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), who will be released into home arrest…

In the wake of the election of Donald Trump with the strong support of White evangelical and other conservative White Christians, my organization, PRRI, released yesterday our annual update of the…