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The U.S. is Finally Catching up to the Domestic Terrorism Threat
It’s often said that soldiers don’t hear the artillery shell hurtling toward them until it explodes. For most Americans, that was true with the insurgency that…
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Four Ways Biden Can Boost the Global Economy
The US is nowhere near as economically dominant as it was even a decade ago. Yet President-elect Joe Biden can take several relatively simple steps that…
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The Only Path to Real Unity
To bring Americans together, President Biden needs to combine his eloquent exhortations with concrete action—a massive expansion of civilian national service. In his inaugural address, President…
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Democracy Has Prevailed
This is democracy’s day. A day of history and hope. Of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages America has been tested anew and…
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Where is the United States Going?
The assault by Donald Trump supporters on the United States Capitol, encouraged by Trump himself, was the predictable result of four years of attacks on democratic…
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Trump May be Gone, But His Big Lie will Linger. Here’s How We Can Fight It
The most obvious corrective to conspiracy theories is the facts that people can see with their own eyes The truth hurts, but lies kill. The past…
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A Second Trump Impeachment Could Answer More Questions About the Attack on the Capitol
This is a moment in which political time seems compressed, with different events overlying one another. On Monday, Joe Biden, wearing a dark-gray polo shirt, spoke…
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Evangelicals Face a Reckoning: Donald Trump and the Future of Our Faith
We must live up to our calling as evangelicals: to proclaim Jesus Christ to the world, rather than betray Him to sustain worldly power. No one…
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Trump is Still Dangerous
On October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and took hundreds of pictures of military installations on the island. The next day,…
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The violence at the Capitol shows Trump’s seditious plot coming to fruition
In a scene that anyone paying attention for the last few years knew was coming, mobs supporting President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and used violence…
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Biden’s security adviser gives a foreign policy preview
Incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan suggests shifts in China and Iran policies and more engagement with Russia In his first media interview, the incoming US…
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Biden needs a failed states strategy
Much has been made of President-elect Biden’s plan to hold a “Summit of Democracy” early in his presidency to renew America’s commitment to spreading democracy abroad…