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March 2025

Usha Vance, NSA Waltz Going to Greenland
Trump says the US will get Greenland “one way or the other.” It should piss off the voters who are struggling.
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James Baldwin and the Reckoning America Avoids
Real change begins with an unflinching reckoning—both with our history and with ourselves.
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Americans Want Leadership—Not Trump's Partisan Theater
History won’t remember the petty theatrics of Trump's speech or the weak protests in response—but it will judge whether we met this dark moment with…
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Karl Barth Asks "Who Are We Becoming?"
Karl Barth challenges us to ask not just what we should do, but what truth requires of us—and whether we have the courage to bear witness to it, even…
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Trump’s Total Betrayal of Ukraine and American Values
A detailed breakdown of Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Zelenskyy and why it was a dangerous betrayal of Ukraine and America's best interests.
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February 2025

An Archipelago of Hope
Hope is not passive—it’s a choice, and we’re making it together.
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Overcoming Fear: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fear does not just lead to bad decisions—it hollows out the soul of a nation.
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Charlie Kirk: The Hollow Leader of the Young Right
We cannot afford to lose an entire generation of young men to MAGA authoritarianism.
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Moral Clarity in a Time of Peril: Reinhold Niebuhr
We must see the truth of our time clearly—but realism must not become resignation.
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A civic prayer and promise
The peril before us is real, and the duty to confront it is absolute.
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January 2025

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