NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference in the Bronx where he was endorsed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on September 17, 2025 in New York City. The endorsement from a significant Bronx politician comes after New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times declaring her support for Mamdani. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Is Mayor Zohran Mamdani Inevitable? The Muslim, Democratic Socialist Appears to Have New York Mayoral Race in the Bag, Unless Something Unexpected Happens

PART II

National Democrats are in a Panic: Mamdani is Attempting to Soften His Positions, But No One, Not Even Democrats, Believes Him

PART III

Socialism Always Fails – History Makes That Point Emphatically and Brutally Clear

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

PART I
A Dark Picture in Every Way: Utah Prosecutors Formally Charge Tyler Robinson, and the Evidence is Horrifying
PART II
New York Judge Undermines Justice: State Judge Dismisses Two Serious Counts in Luigi Mangione Case

PART III
The Moral Discounting of ‘Violence’: The Leftist Redefinition of the Term 'Violence' is Diminishing the Actual Meaning of Violence
PART IV
SCOTUS’s Sad Order on Bathrooms: SCOTUS Allows for So-Called ‘Transgender Boy’ to Use Boys’ Restroom in South Carolina
PART V
Hong Kong Lawmakers Say No to Same-Sex Marriage Bill: Hong Kong Lawmakers Understand the Interconnectedness of Marriage to Other Issues
PART VI
Our Civilization Crisis Summed Up in a Real Estate Ad: A Berkshire Hathaway Ad Points to Society’s Breakdown of Marriage and Family
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

PART I
When You Know There Is More to the Story: Looking at a Big Story at The Washington Post
PART II
Evangelical Political Engagement: The Necessity of a Shared Project in Civil Engagement

PART III
The Radical Gen. Z Divide: In Recent Poll, U.S. Conservative Young Men Rank Having Children Top Priority, While Young Liberal Women Rank It Near Bottom
PART IV
The Progressive Middle Class and the Future of the Nation: Is the Middle Class Progressively More Liberal? Christian Parents, Beware
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Monday, September 15, 2025

PART I
The Arrest of Tyler Robinson: What Do We Know About the Suspect of Charlie Kirk’s Murder?
PART II
The Dark Mixture of Transgenderism and Shooters: Gov. Cox Confirms Robinson’s Boyfriend Claims Transgender Identity

PART III
Justice for Charlie Kirk: As Christians, We Must Keep the Most Important Things Central Even as Other Issues Press on the American Conscience
PART IV
The Murder Chic on the Left: This Response is Evil and Utterly Shocking – How Did It Become a Pattern for the Ideological Left?

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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

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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

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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

PART IV

Florida legislators consider bill declaring pornography a public health problem

Friday, Jan. 26, 2018

PART I

Big news from China reveals threats to human dignity and the cracking of the worldview in the West

PART II

As monkeys are cloned in China we recognize that what happens in China won’t stay in China

PART III

What the depersonalization of dating tells us about the next generation

PART IV

Why Christians must reject a two-story morality and always call sin by its proper name

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018

PART I

An amazing testimony to the gospel, to the reality of good and evil, and to Christian truth in a Michigan courtroom

PART II

An amazing display of theological confusion among some German theologians

PART III

Are pro-life politicians in one party an endangered species?

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018

PART I

After a case of horrific abuse, should homeschoolers in California be inspected by the state?

PART II

Parental rights and religious freedom at stake as New York officials move to control religious schools

PART III

Truth takes a backseat to storytelling on the big screen and the small screen

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018

PART I

The federal government is back in business...at least for another three weeks

PART II

As new conscience protections become national policy, the political left complains about the very argument they once advanced

PART III

What one politician calls “a mistake”, the Bible calls “sin”

PART IV

Abortion reveals a divide that points to the deepest divide of all

Monday, Jan. 22, 2018

PART I

Politics at a fever pitch as limited government shutdown is underway,

PART II

As thousands of women march, record numbers file to run for political office

PART III

45 years after Roe v. Wade decision, the American conscience remains unsettled on the question of abortion

PART IV

How scientific developments have bolstered the pro-life argument

PART V

As President Trump addresses March for Life, we pray for a shift in the ‘moral intuition’ of Americans

Friday, Jan. 19, 2018

PART I

With loneliness on the rise, particularly among young people, Britain names a new government minister of loneliness

PART II

Why children’s books in China are different from the same kinds of books in the United States

PART III

Treason, spies, and betrayal are in the headlines once again

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018

PART I

A radical vision of abortion rights from the Canadian Prime Minister as government uses coercive power to further its own agenda

PART II

A very different vision of abortion as an issue in South Korea

PART III

Australian wedding vendors celebrate a new product line

PART IV

One congregation celebrates same-sex weddings as a signal, but a signal of what?

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