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Monday, June 30, 2025

PART I

Ending the Term with Thunder: The Supreme Court Clarifies the Relationship Between the Executive and Judicial Branches

PART II

Big Wins for Parents at the Supreme Court: Nation’s Highest Court Defends Parental Authority in Two Crucial Cases

PART III

A Landmark Case in the Defense of Human Life: SCOTUS Sides with South Carolina Against Planned Parenthood
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The general view of XXX ahead of PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on January 19, 2017 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.

Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

PART I

As Pyeongchang Olympics begin, politics is never far from the front line

PART II

Bermuda makes history becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage, then abolish it

PART III

International assessors are now coming for American kindergarteners

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

PART I

Drama in both the House and Senate as Congress considers budget deal and DACA fix

PART II

Lessons from Poland: Why trying to shut down an argument almost always intensifies an argument

PART III

Gloria Copeland says you should not ‘receive’ the flu. Why that doesn’t mean you won’t get it
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018

PART I

An imaginary memo reveals a troubling reality about the politicization of abortion

PART II

A very dangerous debate about emotional health and abortion

PART III

Can we still make a distinction between those worthy of government and welfare and those who are not?
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

PART I

Why divorce is never easy, despite the promise of one new website

PART II

Father-daughter dances as the next casualty of the sexual revolution

PART III

The real story of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood: What parents may have missed behind the benign moral messaging
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018

Monday, Feb. 5, 2018

PART I

Major religious liberty issues in new higher education legislation fly under the radar

PART II

The Pope bows to Communist leaders in Beijing

PART III

Why you can add the word “poemish” to your vocabulary list

Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

PART I

Why a referendum in Ireland tells us a great deal about our place in the modern world

PART II

Secular authority tells American evangelicals that the future is going to require “theological flexibility”

PART III

Modern culture refuses to make absolute moral judgments about sex, but not about money
New Haven, USA - May 4, 2015: Yale University campus on April 4, 2015. It is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018

PART I

Yale offers a course on happiness which the professor suggests students should take pass-fail

PART II

Adult happiness linked to Research indicates adult happiness is linked to marriage in a way it is not linked to cohabitation

PART III

Signs of the times as our society is increasingly dabbing, dropping, and doping
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

PART I

On the most important of all political stages President Trump strikes a different note, even as there are few surprises

PART II

New debates about homeschooling take on a new urgency

PART III

As Murphy Brown returns we have to ask, “Will she even be interesting today?”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: A sign awaits Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) before he introduces the Senate version of the 'Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act' before a news conference with leaders from anti-abortion groups in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Graham's bill is the companion legislation to House of Representatives' version, which passed earlier this week by a vote of 237 to 189. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018

PART I

What’s at stake in historic vote in the United States Senate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

PART II

How science is used in today’s contentious cultural debates

PART III

State of the Union preview: What to watch for as President Trump addresses joint session of Congress
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 05: A Planned Parenthood location is seen on August 5, 2015 in New York City. The women's health organization has come under fire from Republicans recently after an under cover video allegedly showed a Planned Parenthood executive discussing selling cells from aborted fetuses. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Monday, Jan. 29, 2018

PART I

Planned Parenthood loses its leader in pushing the culture of death

PART II

Reality sets in among Americans on question of LGBT rights

PART III

Lament over divorcing sex from love falls tragically short
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