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I, Smartphone – The Stream
Make mine a cup of praseodymium with a terbium or two on the side, please. Make it snappy! Beautiful blue cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal with atomic number 27, is inside your smartphone, too. Presently, almost all of it comes from the African…
Federal Employment Shouldn’t Be a Ticket to Lifetime Job Security
Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin. Within the first two weeks of the ongoing government shutdown, agency heads reportedly sent permanent layoff notices to about 4,000 federal employees under the guidance of Director of the Office of…
Faith at Work: Mike Sharrow on Living Boldly for Christ in Business
By Peter Demos Published on October 31, 2025 What if your company could be your mission field? In this 34-minute video, Mike Sharrow — President and CEO of The C12 Group, the world’s largest network of Christian CEOs — joins host Peter Demos to…
The Velvet Glove and the Iron Fist
In the month of October in election years, we’ve come to expect political vitriol. When government gets as big as ours, and figures so prominently in our lives, it’s natural that people who might otherwise ignore it feel compelled to take an…
Consumer Protection Laws: Unconstitutional Controls That Hurt the Very People They Claim to Help
designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus From rent caps to “price-gouging” laws, a new wave of so-called consumer-protection laws is sweeping state capitols. These measures are marketed as compassion in a crisis — or “fairness” in housing —…
10 Ways That ‘Democratic Socialism’ Conflicts with the Gospel
In recent years, a growing number of political voices have revived the concept of democratic socialism—the belief that the government should redistribute wealth, regulate production, and guarantee equality through collective ownership or heavy…
Contrasting the Views of Zohran Mamdani with Scripture
Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani has quickly become one of the most visible faces of the new American left. A New York State assemblyman who rose to prominence through the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani has championed rent…
The Bible Is the One True Narrative of the World
“The question is not whether the whole of our lives will be shaped by some grand story. The only question is which grand story will shape our lives.” This critical question is asked at the conclusion of a 2006 public lecture given by Michael W.…
Where’s the Beef? Thomas Massie PRIME Solution
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:44 — 27.3MB)Subscribe: Android | | More U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shares his thoughts about President Trump’s proposal to…
Where’s the Beef? Thomas Massie’s PRIME Solution
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:44 — 27.3MB)Subscribe: Android | | More U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shares his thoughts about President Trump’s proposal to…