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Sarah McCammon's reflections on covering the news and everything else
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“The most anti-Christian thing imaginable”: Bradley Onishi on the Right's Turn Against Democracy (opens the original)
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In his new book, American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America Into a Monarchy, Bradley Onishi follows three movements that admittedly make strange bedfellows: Reconstructionist Protestants along the lines of far-right Idaho pastor Doug Wilson; reactionary Catholics behind Project 2025; and what Onishi describes as Silicon Valley monarchists like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. They all converge, he says, around a shared idea: that democracy is the problem, and that some kind
Why you need a moderator (opens the original)
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I attended a convention recently as an observer…not a reporter, not a speaker—just there to observe a specific session that included three speakers who were experts on a particular historical event.I’m going to limit the details to that, because I’m not trying to throw anyone under the bus, and I want to speak frankly and a bit critically.And here’s what I want to say:If you’re hosting an event with strong personalities, and/or public comment, please, for the love of all that is holy, enlist an
"I Could Have Been Tamir Rice" (opens the original)
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Justin Bibb learned the rules for surviving a traffic stop from a Cleveland police officer. That officer was his dad, sitting on the bed, cleaning his service weapon while he walked his young son through the script: “Yes sir, no sir, yes ma’am, no ma’am, two hands on the wheel.”Bibb’s father wore the uniform, and he also knew what it could mean for a Black kid on Cleveland’s Southeast side to encounter someone in one.Bibb’s grandmother had her own approach to public safety; she was the neighborh
Live with Third Way’s Sarah McCammon (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Get more from Sarah McCammon in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and Android<a class="install-substack-app-embed-link" href="https://s
The old hippie in my Christian college dorm lobby (opens the original)
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I first met “Cliff” in 1999. I had arrived at my Christian college for the freshman honors retreat and I was setting up my dorm room, when my mom popped in and said, with a slightly confused expression, “There’s an old hippie in the lobby taking registration.”It was Cliff, as he insisted the students call him, even though he had a Ph.D. in philosophy and ordinarily would have gone by Dr. Williams, per the customs of my college. My parents were sending me off within the safe haven of an evangelic
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