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CBS News’ shakeup and the future of the mainstream press

On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate oppressor group and a helpless oppressed group. Tony Dokoupil, whose children live in Israel with their mother, pushed back in the interview. He stated that "The Message" "would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist," and he further argued ...

When cowardly journalists abuse anonymous sourcing

Journalists love to proclaim that they bring transparency to democracy, but it's far too often the exact opposite. They try to run our democracy by exploiting anonymous sources. So when Trump is president, "senior administration officials" say "he's coming seriously unglued." When Biden was ...

Which party will recover first from its current self-harm?

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of ...

We don’t need to ask kids why they’re hungry, we just need to feed them

When I was a high school teacher, I kept granola bars in my desk. Any student could have one if they needed a bite to eat. I didn’t ask about their parents’ income or what neighborhood they lived in. If a kid was hungry, none of that mattered. What mattered was that they couldn’t learn ...

Happy Fathers Day- almost reversed, respected, regulated

I know Father’s Day isn’t for two weeks, but my own father is always in my heart and mind, and our Father in Heaven should be. After all the greatest known prayer is the “Lord’s Prayer”, or the “Our Father.” We would do well to pray the “Our Father” as often as we can. God has made His presence and His love known in many ways, especially as father, as parent. Scripture is replete with specific references to God as our father. As a matter of fact, Jesus specifically directs us in Matthew 5:48, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” ...