Our government’s quiet war on press freedom

Over the previous 14 years, a struggle on the free press has been quietly escalating within the U.S. This brewing battle is fueled by elevated and unchecked authorities surveillance, a post-truth intolerance of any criticism of media protection, and prosecutions of media sources, journalists and publishers which have been endorsed by politicians on either side … Read more

Joe Biden v. Vladimir Putin: This week’s dismal propaganda war had no winners

At one level in Tucker Carlson’s 127-minute “interview” with Vladimir Putin final week — which was extra like a tendentious, digressive historical past lecture, sometimes interrupted by a dim however obsequious schoolboy — Carlson made the Russian president chuckle. It was a creaky, troubling sound, one thing just like the door of an vintage iron … Read more

Religious scholar on the “civil war” within Christianity — and the urgency of stopping Trump

On this age of intense political and spiritual division, many Christian nationalists have satisfied themselves that they’ve a particular declare on America. That merely shouldn’t be true. The USA was not based as a “Christian nation.” The Structure enshrines a transparent separation of church and state, and no model of Christianity has ever been the … Read more