"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 between the myth and the…
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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 the border sits a real-world…
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 their convictions once they get…
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 the results look less like…
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 founders would be proud. It…
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, just the plain text of…
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, someone had the power to…
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 kept right; if wrong, to…
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 four different arguments wearing the…
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. That was never the deal.…
