Tennessee has a real problem in its pharmaceutical marketplace. Over the past decade, 815 pharmacies have closed across the state

There are two scenes I cannot shake, and I need to be honest about why. The first unfolds in the Oval Office, that carefully staged room where power is both exercised and performed. Donald Trump asks an aide to hand him a model bomber. He turns it over in his hands, smiling, admiring it, and then — almost tenderly — he hugs it. “Give me that bomber… let me just hug that little sucker.”

Unexpected Gifts: Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War
By Mel Gurtov
Mar 15, 2026

I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at US expense. While the war has had costs for both those countries, on balance it has benefited both more.

A war the American public never really wanted
By Sophia Gonzalaz
Mar 13, 2026

I keep coming back to one basic question: Who is this war actually for? It does not feel like it is for the average American family watching prices creep up again. It does not feel like it is for parents with children in uniform.

The War in Iran
By Dr. John Avant
Mar 5, 2026

Those who know me well know that it’s fairly rare when I speak out about politics. I respect those called into that realm, but my primary lane and my singular passion is revival that leads to the fulfillment of the great commission.

On a February morning in 2026, the opening days of Black History Month, something unthinkable appeared on the official social media platform of the President of the United States: a video inserting the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama onto cartoon apes, set to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

When federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon and independent reporter Georgia Fort in connection with a protest inside a Minneapolis-area church, many commentators framed the incident as a straightforward defense of sacred space. Worship was disrupted. Congregants were frightened. Law enforcement restored order.

Amid widespread revulsion at the behavior of the second Trump administration and its Republican loyalists, there is a curious tendency to blame Democrats for the slide of the United States toward fascism. As one enraged commentator put it recently, “the Democrats” have “let us down day by day by day.”

The shoes were placed carefully on the frozen sidewalk outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Hospital clogs. The kind worn by nurses who work long, unglamorous shifts keeping strangers alive. A handwritten sign leaned against them: Alex was here. Alex mattered.