"Separation of church and state" has been treated for a generation as settled constitutional law. It isn't a phrase in the Constitution at all. What the document actually says, in sixteen words, is considerably narrower, and considerably more protective of religious Americans, than most people have been taught. That gap…
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By this September, nearly a third of Americans will live in a state where a doctor can legally prescribe a lethal dose of medication to end a patient's life. Support for the practice is rising fast, the language describing it has been carefully softened for decades, and just north of…
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A record 25.2 million Americans under 35 lived with their parents last year. Seven in ten of them have a job. The uncomfortable truth this generation keeps being told to solve with more effort is, by the numbers, not a character problem at all. It is a housing shortage, a…
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Eighty-seven percent of American pastors are already using artificial intelligence in some part of their ministry. A quarter now use it to help write or edit the sermon itself, double the share who even felt comfortable with the idea two years ago. The question facing the American pulpit is no…
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American families now spend more on four years of college than on almost anything else they will ever buy, a house and a wedding included. Almost none of them ever look up the one report that measures whether their child will actually be free to speak, question, and hold onto…
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America is not becoming less religious so much as it is relocating its religion. As traditional faith recedes, especially on the political left, the rituals, moral certainties, and even the language of sin and salvation have not disappeared. They have simply found a new home in political identity itself, and…
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Walk into a wedding reception this year and you're as likely to find a basket of disposable cameras on the table as a photo booth. Ask a twenty-two-year-old about her new phone and she may proudly tell you it can only call and text. There is a word for what's…
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Americans' trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly just hit a new all-time low of 28 percent. Meanwhile, a growing share of the country, more than a third of adults under 30, now regularly gets its news from independent podcasters, YouTubers, and online…
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Should Every Child Have a Right to a Phone-Free Childhood?
Two years ago, a psychology professor published a book arguing that smartphones had quietly stolen something essential from an entire generation of children. Today, thirty-five American states restrict phones in schools, an entire nation has banned social media for anyone…
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Rick Owens sent models down his runway wrapped floor to ceiling in fabric. A Utah farm wife with eight children became one of the most influential style icons on the internet. And a generation of young women exhausted by dating apps is quietly telling researchers they want something slower, more…
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A man can watch four hours of podcasts a day, absorb a dozen influencers' worth of advice on discipline, purpose, and masculinity, and still go to bed having spoken to no one who actually knows him. That is not a hypothetical. It is, increasingly, the ordinary condition of American manhood,…
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Raising one child to adulthood in America now costs roughly $300,000. Childcare alone exceeds public college tuition in 28 states. And for the first time in the eleven-year history of the American Family Survey, finances have become the single most common reason Americans give for having fewer children than they…
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It sounds harmless enough to print on a mug. Be yourself. Follow your heart. You are perfect just the way you are. American parents have repeated some version of this phrase to their children for two generations now, and the research on what it actually produced is no longer ambiguous.…
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On July 4, 2026, the United States marked 250 years since fifty-six men in Philadelphia pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to a proposition most of the world considered reckless: that free people could govern themselves. A quarter of a millennium later, the honest question is not whether the…
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The Constitution Test Most Americans Would Fail
Ten questions most Americans have a strong opinion about, and get wrong more often than not. Read each question, commit to an answer in your head before scrolling to the explanation, and count up your score at the end. No trick questions here,…
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A theory about a lab in Wuhan was censored as dangerous conspiracy in 2020 and now sits on an official government website as the most likely explanation. A story about a laptop was suppressed as Russian disinformation weeks before an election and turned out to be entirely real. Both times,…
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In 1816, a celebrated American naval hero raised his glass and toasted "our country, right or wrong." Fifty-six years later, a senator who had fled political tyranny in Europe to become an American citizen stood on the floor of the United States Senate and corrected him: "if right, to be…
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A shortage of roughly four million homes does not sound, at first glance, like a story about marriage, children, church pews, or retirement security. It is exactly that story. Pull on any thread of American family life quietly fraying right now, and the housing market is somewhere near the other…
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The White House points to a cooling inflation rate and calls it "big progress on prices." A mother filling a cart at the grocery store looks at a receipt nearly $30 higher than it would have been five years ago and calls it something else entirely. Both of them are…
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46% of Americans say they would choose a product labeled "Made in America" over an imported alternative. Only 20% say they are actually willing to pay significantly more to do it. That gap, between what Americans say they value and what they are prepared to spend defending it, is the…
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A Colorado baker spent twelve years and two trips to the Supreme Court defending his right to decline a single custom cake. A Colorado web designer sued preemptively rather than wait to be sued herself, and won a ruling that finally answered the question the baker's case had left open.…
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A house, two cars, a couple of kids, a retirement account that actually grows, and enough left over for a vacation once a year. That is roughly what "the American Dream" has meant for most of the past century. This year, this magazine decided to actually price it out, region…
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A ten-year-old in 1979 could walk to the corner store, spend an afternoon in the woods with friends, and come home when the streetlights came on, all without a parent knowing exactly where he was for hours at a time. A ten-year-old today is more likely to have never walked…
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A Juilliard-trained ballerina who married into a family that founded a major airline bakes sourdough in a floor-length dress for millions of followers, and the internet spends a week arguing about what her life actually proves. That fight, repeated across dozens of smaller accounts every week, is really three or…
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A British government audit that found officials "shied away" from confronting the ethnicity of organized abuse rings. German crime data that show sharp, measurable disparities by migration status. A Swedish prime minister who stood up in 2022 and said the word "failed" out loud. French crime statistics that rose across…
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Behind a growing share of the "opportunities" on the world's largest professional network sits no company at all, only a scammer with an AI-generated logo, a script, and a fake invoice for a laptop that will never actually arrive. The people paying for it are disproportionately those who can least…
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Nationally, the idea remains a fringe position most Canadians reject outright. But in Canada's prairie heartland, a movement that started in Alberta has now spread to Saskatchewan, with both provinces organizing referendum drives, holding cross-border talks in Washington, and building on the same decades old grievance: a federal government that…
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What Phone Culture Is Doing to the American Family
For a decade, worried parents have asked how to get their kids off their phones. Increasingly, the research suggests they may be asking the wrong question, or at least aiming it at the wrong generation. Mom and Dad have…
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A husband, a wife, and a stable home used to be the starting point most Americans built a life from, regardless of what they earned. Increasingly, it is the reward reserved for those who already have the most. The data on who gets married in America today should alarm anyone…
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Packed pews at Asbury, Bible sales climbing for a second straight year, and a generation of young men filling church parking lots that used to sit empty on Sunday mornings. The videos are real. The question is whether they add up to a national turn back to God, or a…
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There are Americans by birth, Americans by oath, and Americans by action. Elon Musk belongs to the last two categories. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, educated partly in Canada and at the University of Pennsylvania, and naturalized as a United States citizen in 2002, Musk did not inherit an American…
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If astronomers confirmed tomorrow that intelligent life exists on a planet orbiting a distant star, it would rightly be the biggest scientific story in human history. It would not shake the foundation of the Christian faith, because that foundation was never built on humanity being alone in the universe. It…
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Nearly three out of every four American teenagers have talked to an AI companion about their feelings, their problems, or their love life. Barely a third of their parents have any idea it's happening. This is the story of what's quietly moving into our children's bedrooms, and why families of…
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The Fourteenth Amendment was written to give the children of freed slaves the citizenship this country owed them. A century and a half later, it is being read to hand automatic American citizenship to the children of tourists, visa overstays, and people who broke our immigration laws to get here.…
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From a bartender's son in Miami to the seventh floor of the State Department, America's chief diplomat has spent a career proving that faith, family, and an unshakable love of country are still the surest path to greatness.
There are leaders who arrive in Washington chasing a title, and there…
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After two wars, a dead supreme leader, and a ceasefire that already asks American taxpayers to help feed the Iranian public, it's time for the world to see what happens when America stops managing a threat and finishes it.
America does not start fights. We finish them. For nearly half…
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How a 24 year old missionary's son from Utah, armed with nothing but a smartphone and a set of direct questions, became the most consequential independent journalist in America, and why his work is a genuine gift to the country.
There is a particular kind of courage that mainstream media…
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Three blocks from the United States Capitol, where the marble monuments of American democracy rise against the sky, stands a building unlike anything else in Washington, D.C. Behind forty-foot bronze doors cast with lines from the Gutenberg Bible lies 430,000 square feet dedicated entirely to the book that shaped Western…
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President Donald Trump’s new investment program for children officially went live on July 4, 2026. Trump Accounts are designed to give young Americans something millions of adults never received: an early, structured stake in the growth of the American economy.
The idea is straightforward. Open an account for a child, place…
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South Carolina awoke Sunday to news that seemed almost impossible to reconcile with the man Americans had watched working only hours earlier. Senator Lindsey O. Graham, the energetic Republican lawmaker, military lawyer, foreign-policy advocate, and longtime defender of the Palmetto State, died Saturday evening after what his office described as…
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The Republic of Ideas: Why WB EDITION Exists
By Whilly Bermudez
America is not a place defined only by geography. It is a covenant - a promise between freedom and responsibility, between truth and courage. Every generation must decide whether to renew that promise or let it fade into comfort…
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How broadcasters, podcasters, and journalists are using their platforms to defend faith, family, and freedom in the public square.
A New Kind of Ministry
Once, sermons were confined to pulpits and faith conversations to sanctuaries. Today, the world’s largest congregation gathers on screens, earbuds, and livestreams. Millions of Americans…
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A look at modern figures who use influence not for outrage, but for restoration.
Every generation produces voices that rise above the static — voices that speak not to inflame but to inspire. In today’s divided nation, such figures remind us that truth and grace need not be enemies.…
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Profiles of Americans who stood for truth when silence would have been easier.
Freedom of speech was never meant to protect popularity. It was meant to protect conviction — the rare willingness to say what is right when everyone else looks away. Throughout history, progress has been born not…
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A reflection on how beauty, craftsmanship, and belief shape the soul of a nation.
Art has always been more than decoration. It is the spiritual handwriting of a civilization — the way a people records what it loves, what it fears, and what it hopes for. Every nation’s art…
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A reflection on continuity, conscience, and the duty to carry wisdom forward.
Every generation inherits both blessings and burdens. We receive a nation shaped by faith, sacrifice, and courage, yet also one tested by rapid change. The question that defines our era is not whether change will come —…
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A call to rebuild the moral backbone of the nation through family, faith, and purpose.
Culture is not created in boardrooms or ballot boxes. It is forged in homes, schools, and churches — in the daily choices of millions who decide what to value, what to teach, and what…
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A story of conviction, courage, and the endurance of faith in an age of pressure.
Faith has always been the heartbeat of America. From the pilgrims who crossed an ocean for freedom of worship to the chaplains who prayed over soldiers on D-Day, belief has carried this nation through…
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A reflection on honor, responsibility, and the quiet strength that still holds America together.
In an age that prizes speed over substance, many say character no longer counts. But that belief misunderstands the American soul. Our nation has always depended not on perfect systems or powerful leaders, but on…
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A celebration of the quiet heroes whose faith, work, and resolve keep the Republic strong.
Courage in America rarely arrives with headlines. It appears in factory floors, rural fields, classrooms, and chapels — in hands that build, hearts that forgive, and spirits that refuse despair. The story of national…
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Why rebuilding the culture of work is the key to America’s moral and economic renewal.
Work has always been sacred in the American imagination. From the earliest settlers carving farms out of wilderness to modern engineers designing spacecraft, labor has never been merely economic—it has been moral. It defined…
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A look at policy, culture, and what putting our country first actually means today.
“America First.” Few phrases have carried more meaning across so many generations. To some, it signals patriotism; to others, duty. To those who understand its heart, it represents a moral call: the belief that Americans…
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A moral, economic, and national imperative for the 21st century.
Energy has always been more than fuel. It is the lifeblood of a nation’s economy, the foundation of its security, and the measure of its sovereignty. From the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the oil fields of Texas, energy…
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The role of integrity and purpose in modern business leadership.
In an era defined by rapid change, digital transformation, and a relentless pursuit of growth, business leaders face a question far deeper than profit: What does success mean without purpose? Across America, a quiet revolution is taking place among…
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Why reshoring production is creating jobs and national pride.
For decades, “Made in the USA” evoked nostalgia more than policy. It was a phrase tied to an older America — a symbol of factories, craftsmanship, and national pride that had slowly eroded as globalization rewired the world’s economy. Yet…
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How independent owners are redefining resilience in a digital economy.
There is no truer reflection of the American spirit than the independent business owner. From a family restaurant in Tampa to a software start-up in Austin, small business remains the heartbeat of the nation’s economy and the embodiment of…
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American enterprise has always been synonymous with ambition. From Silicon Valley’s start-ups to the industrial giants of the Midwest, U.S. companies continue to outperform their global peers in innovation, adaptability, and profitability. Even amid trade turbulence, technological disruption, and international competition, American businesses remain on top of the world stage.…
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Few relics in human history have provoked such intense investigation as the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth imprinted with the faint image of a crucified man. It has been studied by physicists, chemists, pathologists, historians, and skeptics for more than a century. To many, it represents the burial cloth…
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Introduction
The question of whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation is often framed as a matter of modern politics. However, historical documents and the stated intentions of many of the Founders reflect that Christian principles were deeply embedded in the design, rhetoric, and institutions of the…
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Donald J. Trump is not only one of the most consequential figures in modern American politics—he may very well be the greatest president of our time. While others have governed to preserve political appearances or uphold tired conventions, Trump shattered the mold. He delivered results. He redefined leadership. And he…
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Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a conservative firebrand. He wasn’t just a speaker, a debater, or a youth organizer. He was a force of conviction in an era of compromise. At the age of 31, his assassination on September 10, 2025, didn’t end a life - it ignited a movement. And…
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Within less than a decade, the group informally known as The Squad has evolved from political novelty to ideologically twisted vultures inside the Democratic Party. What began as a handful of insurgent freshmen has become an immoral disciplined group shaping debates on taxation, policing, immigration, and U.S. foreign policy. To…
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Ilhan Omar is not merely a controversial figure—she is one of the most divisive and destructive forces in American political life. Since arriving in Congress, Omar has made a career out of attacking the very country she represents. Her record is marked by anti-American rhetoric, questionable personal conduct, open hostility…
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Across continents, from the villages of Nigeria to the prison cells of China, Christians are dying for their faith—often unseen and unheard. This is not history. It’s now.
Across the globe, Christianity faces its gravest assault in generations. The modern persecution of believers has reached epidemic proportions: burned churches, mass abductions,…
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