The recent actions by Republican leadership in Texas and Florida aimed at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) deserve more than reflexive applause or predictable outrage. They require sober analysis. Whatever one thinks of CAIR’s activism, rhetoric, or policy positions, the mechanism being used against it should trouble anyone who takes constitutional limits seriously. These…
What the FBI, Mar-a-Lago, and the Crisis of Trust Reveal About Our Moment
The FBI’s continued pushback against criticism of the Mar-a-Lago search is not merely an institutional defense against political pressure. It’s a window into something far deeper and far more troubling: a nation struggling with betrayal, broken trust, and the quiet fear that the threat to justice may not come from enemies on the outside, but…
Justice, Mercy, and the Voice We Dare Not Ignore
The release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pulled back the curtain on a tension Americans feel but rarely articulate clearly: how do we enforce immigration law firmly without trampling due process, court authority, and basic human dignity? This isn’t a left-wing question or a right-wing one. It’s an American question. And, for Christians, a deeply…
Two Political Earthquakes and What They Say About American Power Today
Every once in a while, American politics hands us two stories that seem unrelated but actually rhyme like Psalms and Proverbs. Yesterday gave us exactly that: Matt Van Epps squeaking out a narrower-than-expected win in deep-red Tennessee, and President Trump issuing a full pardon to Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose corruption case involved some eyebrow-raising…
Power, Responsibility, and the Temptation to Cut Corners
If there’s been a theme running through recent headlines, it’s this: people in power—whether presidents, ministers, or mid-level bureaucrats—love shortcuts. They always sound reasonable in the moment, but they look a lot less brilliant when the dust settles. Take Bangladesh. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her niece Tulip Siddiq just found themselves convicted on…
America’s Institutions Are Cracking and Politics Is Still Swinging the Hammer
Some weeks in American politics feel like someone’s juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle on a frozen lake: impressive in a terrifying way. This past stretch gave us two reminders of how wobbly our institutions have become: the Pentagon reviewing Senator Mark Kelly’s “illegal orders” video, and Georgia finally dropping its long-simmering 2020 election-interference case…
Washington’s Hobby of Breaking Its Own Rules
America’s political world lately feels like someone shook up a snow globe full of legal controversies, military disputes, and enough accusations of “sedition” to make even the Founding Fathers peek over their spectacles. First, we had Senator Mark Kelly telling U.S. troops to refuse “illegal orders,” then the Pentagon launching an investigation, and now the…
Coffee Prices, Baseball Bats, and the Fine Art of Governing Without Losing Our Minds
Sometimes American politics feels like someone dumped a grocery cart, a legal thriller, and a reality show into a blender, hit purée, and said, “Here, taxpayers, drink this.” Yet in the middle of the chaos, we get moments that show how governing actually works: a mix of pressure, course-correction, and the occasional crazy person showing…
Justice or Just Politics? The Comey Case Exposes Washington’s Rotten Double Standard
When a federal judge says the Justice Department may have “indicted first and investigated later,” that’s a flashing red light over the temple of American justice. That’s what Judge William Fitzpatrick said this week in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, who’s accused of lying to Congress back in 2020 about FBI…
Proof of Citizenship Makes Sense If We Do It with Sense
President Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections has stirred up a political hornet’s nest. Democrats are calling it “voter suppression.” Republicans hail it as a “return to election integrity.” And most ordinary Americans are probably scratching their heads wondering, “Wait a minute… shouldn’t we already be doing that?” It’s…
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