Higher Ground
Marijuana’s lies are endangering Americans
The obsessive quest to normalize marijuana use has ramped up over the past decade, with new data showing that those bent on profits over people have successfully manipulated the nation into believing weed comes with no real individual or cultural costs.
Stop voting for ‘trans-Republicans’
If a political charlatan like Gentner Drummond can get elected in a "red state" like Oklahoma, the next shoe to fall will be in your own backyard.
Actor Alan Ritchson’s profanity defense has a biblical problem
Actor Alan Ritchson recently sparked viral headlines when he unleashed a screed many saw as an anti-Trump rant, but there was something embedded within it that deserves deeper attention.
A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV
Rock legend Patti Smith was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she met Friday with Pope Leo XIV.
Israelis worry about weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans
Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans - who, according to a recent AP-NORC poll, tend to consider support for Israel less crucial to their Jewish identity than older adults.
The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI
While the technology might be new, the principles guiding the pope's perspectives have deep roots. In particular, the encyclical invokes the concept of "subsidiarity," a core tenet of Catholic social teaching that has guided the church's response to technological upheavals for almost a century.
As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor
The jokes practically wrote themselves as an eclectic group of progressive pastors, imams and a rabbi walked into a room, finding their seats around a table to talk about religion and politics.
