14+ hour, 22+ min ago   (343+ words) Some progressive lawmakers in Massachusetts have broken with their governor and admitted that aborting a child at full-term gestation is uncivilized. Earlier this week, Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts, a lesbian-identifying Democrat, signed a bill into law that allows for…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (148+ words) When it happened, I had no idea. I heard nothing — no shots, no sounds of struggle. The shooting. That’s still how it’s referred to around here. Simply “the shooting.” That’s all you have to say, and everyone who works for…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (658+ words) Voters reportedly favor Republican candidates by a whopping 46 points “when calling for greater transparency around insurers’ profits, claim denials and wait times for patient care, while hitting Democrats for ‘lining insurers’ pockets,” according to White House polling. That was the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (452+ words) Christian theologians describe the “beatific [or happy] vision” as the goal of the Christian life. “Blessed [or happy] are the pure in heart,” Jesus said, “for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). When united with Christ in the New Jerusalem, believers…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (657+ words) Artificial intelligence was not formally on the ballot in a recent Manhattan congressional primary. It might as well have been. That proxy war points to something much larger. Artificial intelligence is no longer merely becoming political. It is beginning to…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (485+ words) This week, the Justice Department arrested Heidi Beirich, former head of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which was responsible for identifying and labeling SPLC’s list of “hate” groups. The arrest came as another superseding indictment against the SPLC…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (513+ words) As the SPLC’s financial executive, Beirich played an influential role in dispensing SPLC donor funds to members and leaders of extremist groups treated as “informants.” But that did not stop Beirich from entering a romantic relationship with one such source,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (251+ words) According to a press release from the Department of Justice, the enterprise was based in New York City but had reached both coasts, with states like Florida, Massachusetts, and Kentucky playing host to these farce marriages. For foreign nationals trying…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (374+ words) Canada and Brazil banned social media for kids. Should the United States follow in the footsteps of its neighboring countries? New polling shows widespread support for the idea. For decades, parents — and now courts — are arguing that social media is…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (322+ words) In an unprecedented shift among Middle Eastern and South Asian defense dynamics, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have finalized a one-of-a-kind mutual defense alliance in Islam’s holy city, instituting a trilateral pact intended to project concerted power as the traditional…...