And while ideas have consequences — consequences also have ideas.

Why are Catholics and Evangelicals like that?

Truth is, most political violence this campaign has come from anti-Trump thugs

A new play explores how we came to see ourselves as a chosen people.

Intensifying support for the war will produce more attacks on civilian targets and more misery for the people of Yemen.

Can an algorithm really understand what makes a successful place?

A reader explains how neocons and liberals gave us Trump

GOP standard-bearer has now taken to undermining faith in US institutions — and some followers are talking violent revolution

The case for projecting power while limiting wars of choice.

Society can survive the gropey, short-fingered vulgarian. It cannot survive embracing what ‘pansexual’ nitwit symbolizes

How I spent my Yom Kippur

Words on the Street highlights the week’s best writing on cities.

The fruits of a decadent and incompetent leadership class — and things ain’t so great with the followership class either

As long as Washington is eager to keep its clients satisfied, the U.S. will find itself supporting all manner of stupid and destructive policies.

Christianity is fine, unless it gets in the way of what you want to accomplish politically

Donald Trump says female accusers too homely to harass

The U.S. is stumbling into an expanded role in a disastrous war.

By Sunday night, the media were as shocked and stunned as Hillary and Bill.

Funny how all these lecher stories came out all at once, says Mollie Hemingway

Clinton has told us explicitly many times that she means to increase U.S. involvement in Syria.

Elites like Hillary make life worse for millions of Americans.

As in the church abuse scandal, some Christians are willing to dismiss serious sin to preserve a good outcome

The Saudi-led intervention is and always has been indefensible.

One can be simultaneously appalled by Donald Trump’s parroting of Russian propaganda and reject the notion that Russia is a major geopolitical threat to America.

Choosing Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to rub the Other’s face in their arrogance

In the absence of U.S. support, the coalition’s ability to carry out its bombing campaign would be severely limited if not eliminated all together.

Then, as now, revolutionary violence sparks calls for immigration restrictions.

Hillary campaign chief in secret plot to foment ‘revolution’ inside Church

As seas rise, why is government promoting coastal development?

What does ‘political theology’ have to tell us about dire state of liberalism today?

America’s commitments abroad are not making us safer.