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“Hey, why don’t we start with a prayer?” Those are usually the words of a pastor when sitting down to discuss faith with someone. But they weren’t my words. They were Denzel Washington’s when we began an interview about his spiritual life. The conversation was part of a collection of …

For an entire generation of Americans, Dwayne Johnson has only been known as one of Hollywood’s most bankable actors, not for being the professional wrestler known as simply “The Rock” that made him famous to begin with. But in A24’s “The Smashing Machine,” the two worlds collide. Johnson is almost …

Nothing woke America uptothe realities of gender ideology quicker than the photo of Riley Gaines standing nexttoher National Championship opponent, a 6’1″ maletowering over her with his broad shoulders and smoldering grin. You felt it in your bones – this isn’t right. The moment sparked a nationwide campaign totry and …

If you want to know the headlines that the few thousand people who run Washington read in the morning, check the three big platforms that used to be big newspapers — the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post —the two big news networks that dominate …

The saying “If grief could be seen, the world would be covered in black” is often attributed to Francis Weller. For two years, Israel has been wrapped in black. Even when many hostages were freed, the shadow remained. It deepened whenever one of the hundreds of IDF soldiers killed in …

A few weeks ago, Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed impossible. On Monday, President Donald Trump was in the Middle East, putting the finishing touches on his Gaza peace plan. It happened so fast, he made it look easy. But achieving peace was neither fast nor easy. It’s the result of a careful, …

Millions of Americans turned out across the country last Saturday for the “No Kings” rallies, protesting, according to The New York Times, a president that the crowds view as “acting like a monarch.” The success of the protests, however, denies their case. A monarch would have attempted to disperse the …

In one 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 domestic bombings on American soil – a stunning rate of nearly five per day. For many Americans, that fact is shocking. In today’s popular imagination, the politics of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered as a mostly harmless expression …

It has been a turbulent yet inspiring year for Koreans. A declaration of martial law last winter plunged the nation into uncertainty, but what followed was not chaos – it was the reaffirmation of a people’s unshakable faith in democracy. The “Revolution of Light,” culminating in the peaceful election of …

After six weeks of walking from New York City on my Walk Across America, I’ve arrived in Baltimore. This city is one of contrasts. On one side, you have the beautiful Inner Harbor with its shops and eateries; on the other, the rowhouses of Sandtown-Winchester and the public housing towers …