https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207999111.jpg?w=1024 The genuflecting yellowbellies of the Cowards’ Caucus in Congress—which is to say, Republicans as a whole—have groveled mightily in seeking to curry favor with […]
Trump Signs Tax and Spending Bill
Senate Republicans worked over the last weekend of June to secure the votes necessary to advance the bill under the budget reconciliation process, which allows legislation to be passed with a simple majority. On Monday morning, it was time for the vote-a-rama, during which senators can offer unlimited amendments on…
Patriots in the U.S.A.
I chose to write about how the American Revolution really was an honest-to-goodness revolution and was seen as a really big deal at the time—and for the half century after. But then, by the middle of the 19th century, the American Revolution was cut out of the story of the…
A Declaration Against Idolatry
The Declaration of Independence is a loaded gun—like Chekhov’s rifle, you cannot just expect it to hang there on the wall without anybody ever trying to use it. But ignore that document was precisely what the founding generation did—the Declaration looms large in our political imagination today, but Washington, Jefferson,…
Trump fired a Democrat for refusing his orders, Christian employers are fighting to keep her fired
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took a hard line against Christian employers under President Biden, forcing them to pay for employees’ hormone and surgical […]
Republican attorneys general found a loophole China exploited for fentanyl and got Trump to close it
While some online American shoppers are upset over President Donald Trump closing a trade loophole that allowed China to import some small-dollar parcels into the […]
Pay to Play
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2208410177.jpg?w=1024 Ask the average political junkie to name a scandal involving Joe Biden’s son Hunter and I bet nine out of 10 would name the […]
Judge approves class-action suit against Chicago Public Schools for Hindu rituals forced on students
Chicago Public Schools allegedly subjected students to secret religious rituals by a Hollywood director’s charitable foundation with the help of the University of Chicago. CPS […]
Babylon Bee sues California over censorship law
Christian satire site The Babylon Bee is suing California to stop the enforcement of a law requiring tech platforms to provide reporting on misinformation and […]