Opinion
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…
Governor Gavin Newsom Becomes a ‘Christian Nationalist’
California Governor Gavin Newsom invoked the biblical command to care for the poor at a press conference in Sacramento last Tuesday. If the individual saying such a thing was most anyone other than the chief executive of the Golden State, one…
Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government
John WhiteheadJohn Whitehead America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it.A kleptocracy is literally “rule by thieves.”It is a form of government in which a network of ruling elites…
The Brew: Biden Witch-Hunt of 2020 Election Skeptics Was ‘100 Times Worse Than Watergate’
There should be even more than alarm bells. There should be flashing red lights all over. This is not Karen Bass. This is not the guy in Chicago. You’re going to see a whole new group of Mamdanis in these major urban cities because they’re just…
You Can Just DO Things
In the subculture of the vibe-driven new right that suffuses much of MAGA world in the northeastern corridor, one of the commonplaces is the assurance that, whatever the putative obstacles at hand, “you can just do things.” It’s an invocation at…
America Needs the Principles of Faith, Family and Freedom
The following is adapted from Family Research Council President Tony Perkins’s remarks at the Louisiana Republican Leadership Conference on November 1, 2025. Here in Louisiana, we don’t wait on Washington to reopen the government. Our state has…
Here Comes the Judge, There Goes Order and the Border
Matt O'Brien Most constitutional republics in the West have a government that consists of three branches: the legislative which makes the laws; the executive which enforces the laws; and the judicial which interprets the laws.…
While Liberals Have More Abortions, Conservatives Just Have More Babies
In decades of teaching sociology in colleges, I have explained to students that the most important factors shaping societies are the least “sexy” or “glitzy.” One of these is demographics. It may be boring, but boy, it is powerful.A king among…
America’s Great Heritage: Civil Society
“Taxation,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, “is the price we pay for civilization.” But a much better case can be made that taxation is the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of themselves, their families, and…
Pennsylvania Democrats Push Radical Amendment for Abortions Up to Birth
Democratic lawmakers, across the country, are hellbent on making the violence of abortion three things: unlimited, unrestricted and unregulated. New York, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Michigan, Colorado, Vermont, and New Jersey have all enshrined…