Before abortion became the defining moral issue of the Christian Right, the Southern Baptist Convention — the largest Protestant denomination in the United States — held a very different view. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Southern Baptists were generally moderate or permissive about abortion in cases of rape, fetal deformity, or
“Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority.” That’s what Stephen Miller said — right before everything went silent. The host tried to recover. “Stephen? … Stephen?” But Miller just stared into the camera, motionless, as the audio dropped out. The feed hung there for several
“I, [name], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…” That oath — not to a ruler, not to a party, not to a president — is the
We are in a deadly serious moment — not theoretical, not distant, not something that can be brushed off as political noise. There is a growing willingness in this country to deploy the National Guard, or even the regular military, inside American cities. Some people think that’s normal, that it’
The Comfort of Obedience and the Cost of Silence Immanuel Kant once wrote, “Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance, nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to
The Blue Lives Matter movement did not emerge spontaneously—it was born as a direct counter to a call for racial justice. In 2013, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, three Black women—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi—created the hashtag
Modern political movements did not emerge from a vacuum. They are the product of thousands of years of philosophical evolution — a long conversation stretching from ancient mystics and early thinkers to the modern ideologues who shaped the 19th and 20th centuries. Every major political theory — from socialism and fascism to
Donald Trump’s rise to power was not an accident or an anomaly; it was the culmination of deep, long-term shifts in American society that created the perfect conditions for a populist strongman. His ascent drew from economic dislocation, cultural backlash, institutional decay, and the deliberate use of fear and
A few weeks ago, the home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein — the same judge who ruled against Donald Trump — was completely destroyed in a fire that witnesses described as an explosion. Her husband barely survived, leaping from the second story to escape the flames. Officials still haven’
In 1866, the United States quietly passed a law forbidding the likeness of any living person from appearing on its currency. It wasn’t a symbolic gesture or an act of aesthetic preference — it was born out of scandal and outrage. A bureaucrat named Spencer M. Clark, then the head
For over a century, the Ku Klux Klan lynched, bombed, and terrorized Black Americans, civil rights leaders, and even elected officials — yet the U.S. government never formally designated the KKK as a terrorist organization. Entire communities were burned to the ground. Churches like Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church
History is not what most people think it is. It’s not a clear story of good versus evil or a steady march toward justice. It’s a story rewritten by those who survived, polished by those who benefited, and simplified by those who want to believe they would have