Thursday, January 16, 2025

PART I President Biden’s Farewell Address: President Warns Against What He Called the "Tech-Industry Complex” and an “Oligarchy"

PART II The Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas: Agreement is Tentatively Reached in the Middle East

PART III Cuba Off the State-Sponsored Terrorism List, For Now: President Biden Removes Cuba From Important List

PART IV Starbucks is No Longer a Third Place: Famous Seattle Coffee Shop Chain is Changing One of Its Major Business Policies

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

PART I Advice and Consent: Why Do Some Presidential Appointees Require Senate Confirmation?

PART II Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing: The Defense Hearing of Trump’s Choice as Secretary of Defense Gets Interesting Fast

PART III The Disappearing Middle of American Media Consumption: The Major Shift of Viewership From Older Media to Social Media Influencers

PART IV A Look at the Adversary Press: The Media in Disagreement with Leadership in the White House Tends to Grow Its Base in Its Opposition

PART V The Left is Lawyering Up: President-Elect Trump is Not Afraid to Sue for Defamation, and It’s Destabilizing Liberal Media

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

PART I SCOTUS Seems Poised to Uphold TikTok Ban: SCOTUS Could Settle the Issue This Week, But Will President Trump Unsettle It Once Again?

PART II Lotteries are a Tax on the Poor: There is a Great Moral Cost to the Lottery, and the Lottery Preys on the Poor

PART III Young Men are Increasingly Addicted to Gambling: Gambling Companies are Targeting Young Men with Online Sports Gaming

PART IV Nursing Mothers are Saving Lives: God’s Design in Motherhood is an Imperative to Optimize Breastfeeding for Mothers

Monday, January 13, 2025

PART I The LA Fires are Shaping Up to Be the Costliest Natural Disaster in U.S. History – And the Political Fires Are Just Getting Started

PART II President Biden’s USA Today Interview: The President’s Cognitive Decline was on Display in the Interview – So What Will He Do in His Final Week as President?

PART III The Commendation of One Inconsistent Catholic to Another: President Biden Awards Medal of Freedom with Distinction to Pope Francis

PART IV The Pope Appoints Liberal Archbishop to DC: Watch as Legislation and Legislators Move Left as a Result

PART V The Vatican’s New Guidelines Opens Door for Homosexual Priests: The New Guidelines Reveal Identity Politics Plus Moral and Theological Issues

PART VI Conservative NT Scholar Turned LGBTQ Supporter: The Tragic Death of Richard Hays

PART VII A Parable of Moral Revolution: The Legacy of Anita Bryant According to the Secular Left

Friday, January 10, 2025

PART I In the National Cathedral: The State Funeral of Former President Jimmy Carter

PART II The Fires in LA Still Burn Out of Control – We are Praying for All Endangered by the Historic Fires in LA

PART III Why is the Resurrection Essential to the Christian Faith? – Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART IV The Bible’s Narratives About the Death of Animals Shocks My 7-Year-Old Son. How Do We Faithfully Bring the Word to Him? – Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART V What Does the Bible Say About Dragons and Dinosaurs? – Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listeners to The Briefing

Thursday, January 9, 2025

PART I Former President Carter’s State Funeral Today: What to Look For in the Funeral Service as Our Nation Mourns the Loss of a President

PART II We are Witnessing the Largest and Deadliest Fire in LA County History: Absolute Devastation to Human Lives and Civilization as Fires Rip Through Southern California

PART III Meta Drops Fact-Checking: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Significant Change to Censorship Policies Across Meta’s Social Media Platforms

PART IV A Single Bluefin Tuna Just Sold for $1.3 Million in Japan – That’s A Lot of Sushi

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

PART I Sorry It Happened? : Azerbaijan Furious that Putin Refuses to Admit Russian Military Attacked Airliner on Christmas Day

PART II Biology is Not Bigotry—Amen: Prominent Evolutionary Scientist Causes Controversy by Denying a “Trans Woman” is a Woman

PART III The Trans Prisoner Experiment That Didn’t Last: Washington Moves Trans Woman Back to Men’s Prison – For Obvious Reasons (To Most of Us)

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

PART I Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Is Out: Justin Trudeau Announces Resignation as He and His Party Faced Electoral Disaster

PART II Florida, New York, and the ‘Flailing Left’: What the Juxtaposition of the Two States Reveals about the Crisis of Progressive Government

PART III A Political Controversy from a Cartoonist? The Washington Post Refuses to Run Cartoon of Bezos Bowing to Trump – But Bezos Owns The Post

Monday, January 6, 2025

PART I The Threat of Terrorism on American Streets: A Deadly Domestic Terrorist Attack in New Orleans and a Car Bomb Outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas — Both on New Year’s Day

PART II Speaker Johnson Wins Re-Election, But Is His Victory Fragile? Republicans Stay the Course After Dramatic Vote

PART III The Death of Florida’s 23-Day Governor: Buddy MacKay Dies at 91

Monday, December 30, 2024

PART I Special Edition of The Briefing: Former President Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

PART II A Life on the World Stage: The Political Career of Former President Jimmy Carter

PART III Jimmy Carter’s Understanding of Biblical Authority, the Southern Baptist Convention, and Evangelical Identity

PART IV The Evangelical Opposition to Jimmy Carter: The Progressivist Views Held by the Former President Set Him at Odds with Evangelicals