There is a man you should know. His name is Russell Ellis. He grew up in the mountains of North Carolina inside a home where racism was not a flaw to be corrected but a foundation to be built upon. He was raised, as he puts it plainly, not merely around racists, but by them. […]
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Let us be precise about what happened. The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that classified American intelligence assessments show Iran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, roughly 75 percent of its mobile missile launchers, operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, […]
Don Colossus
They call it Don Colossus. A 22-foot bronze statue at Trump National Doral golf course in Miami, draped in gold leaf and surrounded by palm trees, dedicated with prayers and tears by evangelical pastors who held a phone to a microphone so the president could bless his own monument by speakerphone. Truly, we live in […]
There is a story being told in certain corners of American media, and it goes something like this: the Left is violent, the Right is not, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a propagandist or a fool. Let us test that story against the facts. Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States […]
A war briefing is not a pulpit. The Pentagon is not a church. And Pete Hegseth is not a minister of anything except the art of humiliation — his own, the military’s, and now, apparently, the Lord’s. On Thursday, at what was supposed to be an update on the ongoing U.S. military campaign against Iran, […]
The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth, Apparently
The Pope told the world to choose peace.Donald Trump called him weak.This is where we are. Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, stood in St. Peter’s Basilica and delivered a prayer vigil against war. He denounced what he called a “delusion of omnipotence.” He called on […]
JD Vance wants to be taken seriously on the world stage. The world has other ideas. In the span of roughly one year, the Vice President of the United States has managed to antagonize a dying pope, fly to Europe to campaign for a strongman trailing by double digits, and spend twenty-one consecutive hours negotiating […]
It is Easter weekend in America. The churches are full. The story is told again, as it has been told for two thousand years, of a crowd given a choice. Pilate asked them. He stood before the assembled people and offered them what custom demanded: one man freed, one man condemned. He presented two: a […]
There is a temptation, in times of war and outrage, to flatten the world into two categories: those who condemn evil and those who enable it. It is a tempting simplicity. It is also a lie. Let us be precise about Iran. Not careful. Precise. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic dictatorship. It […]
A Lie That Had to Invent Its Audience
Modern political lies rarely travel solo. They arrive accessorized with a happy crowd of fools ready to believe. The story circulating about Gavin Newsom and his interview with Andre Dickens, the mayor of Atlanta, is a perfect specimen. Newsom told a “largely Black audience” that he was just like them because he did poorly on […]