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By Saboor Sakhizada The US-Iran conflict reflects a fundamental strategic mismatch: Washington seeks swift victory, while Tehran aims for endurance and survival. Escalation and pressure alone have failed to produce decisive results, as Iran absorbs and adapts to challenges over time. A shift toward patient, incentive-based strategies is essential to reshape the conflict’s trajectory and avoid prolonging the war indefinitely. Despite the removal of senior Iranian officials, Operation Epic Fury has yet to deliver the outcome Washington sought. As of last week, following 21 hours of direct talks facilitated by Pakistan, the US walked away from negotiations with its Iranian counterparts. As US…
By Russell Moore. In the past few weeks, the president has posted an Easter message that used profanity and threatened civilizational genocide, has issued threats to the pope, and has posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus. (He now says he was portraying himself as a doctor.) After all this, even some of the president’s supporters feel humiliated and angry. I think it’s worth asking what exactly is coming to light in this moment and whether it could disrupt a means-to-an-end cultural Christianity. For years, some evangelicals have told us Donald Trump might be the disruptor we need to bring us back to Jesus. For the first time, I…
By John Stonestreet/Andrew Carico. The prophet Isaiah warned, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” A modern example, as Dr. Al Mohler recently described on The Briefing, is the “moral incoherence” of believing life is sacred and valuable while also rejecting any consequences for those who take it. Recently, the state of Georgia charged a woman with the murder of her 22- to 24-week-old baby, who died within an hour of birth after her mother took abortion pills at home to terminate the pregnancy. This is the first murder charge in the state related to its six-week abortion ban. The Washington Post article that covered this story concluded by citing a 2022 Economist/YouGov poll. According to the poll, 19% of respondents think a woman who…
By Brit McCandless Farmer/CBS News For more than two decades, the numbers told a story of decline. Adult conversions to Catholicism had been falling steadily since the early 2000s, according to data compiled by Georgetown University. Weddings, baptisms, and even funerals registered fewer and fewer Catholic participants. The church appeared to be losing its hold on American life. Then something shifted. Since around 2022, dioceses across the country have reported a reversal of that trend, with growing numbers of Americans — particularly Millennials and Gen Z — choosing to join the Catholic Church. This past Easter, some archdioceses recorded their highest number…
By Abby Trivett/US Correspondent. We may just be living through one of the most prophetic moments described in the Bible. According to a new Pew Research study, 60% of adults in the United States were found to have “an unfavorable view of Israel,” going up seven points from last year’s 53% disapproval rating. Along with this disheartening statistic, 59% were discovered to have “little or no confidence in Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” which is also higher than last year’s 52% disapproval rating. What’s interesting about this is that it doesn’t appear to be a political party…
By David Mouriquand/US Correspondent A clip of the Artemis II crew’s silence to Donald Trump’s praise and ranting has gone viral. In space, no one can hear you cringe. Following the historic space mission to the far side of the moon, the crew of Artemis II got a call from none other than Donald Trump. He congratulated the astronauts on their lunar flyby before going off on a tangent, ranting to Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen about how he’d spoken to former Canadian ice hockey player and MAGA supporter Wayne Gretzky (which Trump refers to as “the Great One”), as well as Canadian Prime…
By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh/Gatestone Institute The United States should not fall for the wish that any official of the current Iranian regime will somehow be different from the others. This illusion has surfaced repeatedly, repackaged with new faces and new rhetoric, but always serving the same underlying system. Washington and its allies really need to recognize that individuals within the Islamic Republic of Iran do not operate independently of the regime’s ideological core — they are products of it. For decades, the Iranian regime has played a calculated game. Every few years, when pressure intensifies — whether economic, political or…