Monday, January 20, 2025

PART I

To Preserve, to Protect, and to Defend the Constitution: Today is Inauguration Day in the United States

PART II

The Historic Legacy of Joe Biden: Joe Biden’s Long Political Career Beginning as Senator in 1972 and Ending as President in 2025

PART III

Controversial Decisions and Cognitive Decline: President Biden’s Final Months in Office

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Friday, January 17, 2025

PART I
Age-Verification for Pornography Goes Before SCOTUS: SCOTUS Hears Consequential Oral Arguments on Texas Porn Case – What Wasn’t Said is Just as Important as What Was Said
PART II
Limiting Porn Access is a Major Parental Responsibility: Christian Parents, We Cannot Entrust the Government to Limit Porn Access in Our Families

PART III
What Comfort is There for the Christian When an Unsaved Loved One Dies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART IV
Would Samson Have Lost His Supernatural Power If He Had Broken His Nazarite Vow By Drinking Alcohol? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
PART V
How Should My Husband and I Approach Our Children's Social Media Access? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART VI
Will the Republican Party Ever Return to its Former Policies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART VII
What is Voluntarism? How Does It Fit Within Scripture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
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

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The Briefing 10-10-17

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When did the Kennedy family change its position on abortion?

PART II

Alabama Senate candidate flaunts pro-abortion position. Why are the media ignoring it?

PART III

The rise of the occult in headlines from Africa

PART IV

What Sally Quinn’s fascination with the occult tells us about high society and ourselves

The Briefing 10-09-17

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A clash of orthodoxies: Trump administration's reversal of contraception mandate sets off firestorm

PART II

Two different conceptions of how to read a law on display in AG Session’s Title VII guidance

PART III

Why rival charges of hypocrisy are sometimes both right

The Briefing 10-06-17

PART I

Partisanship comes to late-night: What the turn in comedy tells us about the culture

PART II

Dark, anxious, and realistic: Why comedians now want audiences to wince while they laugh

PART III

Art as a form of moral subversion: Exhibit about gender aims to upend very idea of gender

PART IV

Worldview book recommendation: “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Briefing 10-05-17

PART I

After House passes 20-week abortion ban, sanctity of human life could hang by a Senate rule

PART II

While upholding sanctity of life with his vote, PA congressman undermines it in personal life

PART III

Political hypocrisy on the sanctity of life is not only immoral and humiliating, it’s deadly

The Briefing 10-04-17

PART I

How to speak in the aftermath of a massacre, even in a context of controversy

PART II

Awkwardness in using the word evil reveals bigger problems

PART III

When the Archbishop of Canterbury won’t answer the question, he actually has answered the question

The Briefing 10-03-17

PART I

The moral vocabulary of pure evil in the aftermath of Las Vegas

PART II

The importance of moral facts, not just moral values, and the reality of evil

PART III

Why, in times of trouble, the American people expect their president to quote Scripture

The Briefing 10-02-17

PART I

The intersection of natural disaster and political leadership in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

PART II

The looming humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and the ineffectual nature of the United Nations

PART III

Achievement and fragility of the nation-state on display as Kurds and Catalans push for independence

The Briefing 09-29-17

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A pornographic revolution, Playboy, and the death of Hugh Hefner

PART II

The lie at the heart of ‘Banned Books Week’

PART III

‘No problem’ or ‘You’re welcome’? Exploring the link between language and etiquette

PART IV

Worldview book recommendation: Wired for Intimacy

The Briefing 09-28-17

PART I

What does Roy Moore’s victory mean for the Republican party and the state of American politics?

PART II

Why the collapse of morality inevitably leads to the failure of etiquette

PART III

As life expectancy for those born with Down syndrome increases, the womb becomes more dangerous

The Briefing 09-27-17

PART I

Marriage no longer the default way to form a family in the United States

PART II

Why international organizations fail to deliver world peace

PART III

What the quest for self-fulfillment in the 1970s bequeathed to America today

PART IV

Major American newspapers divide Americans into the dead and the pre-dead

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