At a time when denominational arguments about Christian nationalism, patriarchy, same-sex marriage, and abortion dominate the religious landscape, Tim Keller stayed focused on the point of it all: the hope of eternal life.
Germany’s very public agonizing over whether to provide its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, or allow other states that had purchased Leopard 2s to send theirs, graphically exposed Berlin’s continued confusion about its status as a NATO member. While there is momentary relief that, at last, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government committed to providing the armor Ukraine requested, it did so only after President Joe Biden also agreed to send roughly a battalion of America’s Abrams tanks. While Biden’s decision was correct on its own merits, it was hardly a matter of strategy and more a matter of horse-trading to persuade Berlin’s decidedly reluctant leadership.
New York City is amid a crime wave. In 2022, major crimes rose by 22%, and likely the largest contributor to the spike was shoplifting — which shot up an astounding 44%.
Jeffrey Epstein might be dead, but his partners in crime are still very much alive. Hence, the Wall Street Journal continues to shock the world with a series of reports on the convicted child rapist and his famous friends. In its latest expose, the Wall Street Journal got Bill Gates's spokesman to confess, on the record, that "Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship" — Gates's 2010 affair with a 20-something Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova — to get the Microsoft co-founder to contribute to a multibillion-dollar charitable fund.
WHEN A 'TRAVEL ADVISORY' IS PARTISAN POLITICS. Recently, the NAACP issued what it calls a "formal travel advisory" to warn black people against visiting Florida. "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals," the group said. "Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color."
India may be the world’s most populous country and its largest democracy, but for decades, its military has depended disproportionately upon Russian arms. That legacy New Delhi may now regret.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was positively apoplectic in January when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) denied him membership on the House Intelligence Committee he had led for the past four years.
Four days later, I am still in disbelief that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wore shorts and a hoodie to a Senate press conference. It was a cringeworthy moment in our nation's history and, quite frankly, trashy and classless. (This is not a sentence I want to be writing about our country's senators - Republican or Democrat).
The May 18 House hearings with three FBI whistleblowers brought “yet another loud display of the once-disgraced tactic of questioning the loyalty and patriotism...
