When a book’s dust jacket describes its author as an “award-winning investigative reporter” and the author begins by describing his work as “an investigative history of the modern Roman Catholic Church,” readers might expect that, by the end of the book, something strikingly new would have been revealed. But in this case (to borrow from
Jonathan Rauch is asking all the right questions. “Why should secular Americans, including many who feel they have a beef with organized religion, care about the state of Christian America?” for one. For another, “What happens to our liberal democracy if American Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions
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Indiana is taking a first step toward a rather unlikely effort to amend its border and acquire parts of Illinois, as Illinois officials remain reluctant to approve the measure.
The trio, in a statement posted by Dan Caldwell, said they still don’t understand why they were placed on leave. A trio of former Pentagon employees spoke out on April 19 after being placed on leave this week in connection with an ongoing investigation into leaks within the Department of Defense. This week, a Defense
The Trump administration released the identities of a number of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members it tried to deport before the Supreme Court blocked the move early Saturday.
The U.S. military became involved in Syria in the early 2010s amid the country’s civil war, and the rise of ISIS. The Pentagon is preparing to downsize the U.S. military footprint in Syria in the coming weeks, citing recent successes against the ISIS terrorist group. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, on April 18, announced what the