In 1959, Fidel Castro entered Havana to cheers, promising freedom, land reform, and justice. Within a year, he had seized private property, shut down the free press, and jailed political opponents. Churches were closed or tightly controlled. By 1965, Cuba […]

Faith‑group leaders told to halt public worship at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility in Broadview, Illinois; First Amendment questions raised A coalition of clergy in the Chicago area say they were informed in recent weeks that organised

Lawsuit claims coordinated protests aimed at churches and synagogues over support for Israel violated federal protections for religious worship Worship services at The Mission Church in Carlsbad and events hosted by the Christian and Jewish Alliance were repeatedly disrupted by

Some countries drift through history. Germany tore through it like a wrecking ball. In the span of seventy years, it went from monarchy to fragile democracy, to fascism, to Soviet-style socialism, to Western capitalism. No society survives that kind of

The 9th Circuit’s ruling on Friday shows what happens when moral objections count only if they sound religious. Oregon Right to Life doesn’t advertise itself as a religious organization. It’s a political advocacy group, a 501(c)(4), open to anyone who

Before they were apostles, they were political opposites. That didn’t stop them from walking the same road. Matthew worked for the empire. Simon wanted to burn it down. One collected taxes from his neighbors for Caesar. The other likely saw

Early returns show that on November 4, 2025, voters in Texas approved Texas Proposition 15, Parental Rights Amendment (2025). The measure will amend the Texas Constitution to state that a parent “has the responsibility to nurture and protect the parent’s child and

After I published a blog article critical of socialism, a reader challenged me for equating socialism too closely with communism. I asked them to name socialist countries that weren’t also communist but they didn’t offer a response. That prompted me

The Supreme Court on November 6, 2025, granted a stay allowing the Biden administration’s successor to enforce a revised State Department policy requiring all newly issued U.S. passports to display a person’s sex assigned at birth, not their self-identified gender.

The uproar over Project 2025’s “Sabbath overtime” reads like a scene straight out of America’s current political fever dream. Online pundits warn of creeping theocracy. TikTok prophets insist the blue laws are coming back. Cable commentators toss around words like