TopicsPosts Tagged ‘politics’
Birthright Citizenship, the Common Law, and the 39th Congress
Ben Keener and I have posted a new paper on the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This one provides an extended analysis of the English common law origins of the native birth rule and of the debates in the 39th Congress over the meaning of the Citizenship Clause that they adopted as part of the…Read More
The Mladenov distraction: Behind the screen, Netanyahu is annexing Gaza ‘step-by-step’
Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration, considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide. Currently,…Read More
How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons
The spires of the historic Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016. | George Frey/Getty Images Over the weekend, the Department of Defense stepped into one of the more delicate questions in American religiosity: who gets to be called “Christian.” More specifically, does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church), fit…Read More
The World Cup has a Trump problem
Donald Trump at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 5, 2025. | Dan Mullan/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The World…Read More
How Virginia Democrats are coping with their redistricting defeat
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on February 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Virginia. | Mike Kropf/Getty Images Virginia’s plan to redraw its congressional maps to create as many as four new Democratic seats is dead, struck down by the state supreme court. Its impact on Virginia politics, though, is…Read More
The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to supporters on May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. | Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Now that Ken Paxton, the conservative attorney general of Texas, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination, we may see something unusual in modern American elections: a theological throwdown. In a closely…Read More
Somehow, the Antichrist returned
A religious sign held up above fans outside of the stadium before a football game between Penn State and University of Michigan on October 19, 2019, in University Park, Pennsylvania. | Brett Carlsen/Getty Images In case you didn’t notice, the Antichrist is back. All right, forgive the hyperbole — this biblical agent of Satan hasn’t actually returned to lead a…Read More
One Big Reason Kamala Harris Lost in 2024? The ‘Backlash Against a Black Woman,’ Argues Prominent DC Journo
Former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to President Donald Trump largely because of the “backlash against a Black woman,” according to one prominent Washington, D.C. reporter. Dana Milbank — a former Washington Post columnist who now writes for Notus — shared his thoughts during an appearance on ABC’s This Week. The roundtable was discussing the Democratic National Committee’s…Read More
Marjorie Taylor Greene Worries Trump Will Try To Cancel 2028 Election: ‘He Constantly Says It’
The Alex Jones Show Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she is worried that President Donald Trump will use the war in Iran to try to cancel the 2028 presidential election. Greene, formerly a longtime Trump ally, has split with the president over the last year over the war, the Epstein files, and other issues. The president also reportedly…Read More
Candace Owens Drops Lewd Laura Loomer Theory for Why Trump Attacked Her
The ongoing feud between MAGA influencers Candace Owens and Laura Loomer escalated even further this week as Owens suggested Loomer may have some lewd blackmail on President Donald Trump. Trump savagely attacked Owens last Friday with a fake, very unflattering mock-up of a Time magazine cover declaring her “Vile Person of the Year.” “Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very…Read More