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What Happens When You Put the Right People in the Room

In a year when the world often feels like it’s spinning faster than any of us can process, there’s something radical about slowing down to think deeply…

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Scripture Doesn’t Have a Low Opinion of Women. But Pete Hegseth Does.

No one could have predicted what lay ahead that day: a teenage girl living under Roman occupation sang a revolution into existence.

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"Welcome to the Cemetery of the Living Dead"

A famed mathematician once warned America could turn into a dictatorship without breaking a single law. These men’s stories may prove him right.

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Loyalty First, Law Second

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Who Controls America's Founding Story?

The battle for our past is really a battle for the future.

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DOGE Didn't Save You Money. It Cost Us Billions.

Plus: parts of the Constitution missing from the Library of Congress website? A new census that leaves out noncitizens, the FBI says they will hunt TX…

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The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis Isn't in Gaza or Ukraine

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