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A nasty fight erupted outside of Miami International Airport on Monday as travelers were seen pulling each other's hair and dragging one another to the ground. The fight began just after 9 pm EST near the airport's lower-level doors 16 and 17, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. A video of the altercation went viral on social media, depicting the terrifying moments when two individuals began beating each other. As fists flew, others ran to join the fight. The brawl involved both men and women, as some attempted to de-escalate the violence. At one point, an individual was pulled by...

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, “a fecalized environment. “In plain English: s— is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust — onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause...

In today’s culture, with the countless adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, some adaptations have been forgotten, or cast into the shadows for more modern interpretations. It is not difficult to see how and why this is, especially since there are so many adaptations going all the way back to the silent movie era. This particular version of A Christmas Carol, is one of the most historically significant because of a number of unique factors, of which I am going to address further in this piece....

People living in “an Islamic country” must “at least have to profess [they’re a] devout Muslim.” Those living in “the United States or a Western Europe,” however, can believe and do whatever they want. Hanson breaks down the difference between “a Judeo-Christian country” and “an Islamic country” where it’s “almost impossible” to be “an apostate, an atheist, [or an] agnostic” in those countries, on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

Screenshot/Rumble/KMOV A Missouri woman on Thursday receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds complained about only being able to buy “real food” with the program, according to St. Louis TV station KMOV. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday the approval of a waiver request from Missouri and five other states to restrict the purchase of candy, sugar-sweetened drinks and other items after Oct. 1, 2026. Hannah Moore complained to KMOV reporter John Kipper in a story that the restrictions were “not even cool.” “What is the point of food stamps if it’s just for ‘real food?’” Moore asked. WATCH:...

Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person. Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black. Imagine them being honored as black citizens...

Are we witnessing an unprecedented cultural shift in America? Jack Hibbs sounds the alarm about the rapid growth of Islam and its impact on politics, law, and everyday life from city councils to national headlines. Is America undergoing an expected awakening or an invasion nobody saw coming? Video is 3:39 minutes long.

… In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many American mothers began to question the institutions they had once trusted to uphold their lives. Into that vacuum stepped conservative Christian women influencers — like political commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, Make America Healthy Again pioneer Alex Clark, and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Barker …(who famously tied for fifth with trans athlete Lia Thomas in a 2022 NCAA championship race) - who blend religion, polished aesthetics and personal stories to build trust on issues from food dyes and vaccines to transgender athletes and immigration. … For many women during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

A while back, a married couple asked for the time of the morning service at my church, promising to show up the following Sunday. They did, and enjoyed the service, but an observation by the wife surprised me. “Everyone’s dressed up,” was the essence of her comment. Even the ladies, she noticed, were wearing skirts and dresses instead of pants, something she seemed to think was refreshing. Apparently, I’ve been in my own church bubble for too long to realize that dressing up for special occasions and places is no longer a thing. It’s a pity that it isn’t. Because...

In the year 2000, The United Nations General Assembly designated November 25th as the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" - "The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence." How's that going? Twenty-five years later, a man who abused his ex, stole her name and entered the women's locker room at Gold's gym is the one being protected: Surprise! The man in the women's locker room at Gold's Gym is a convincted felon who did time for domestic violence. This...

Your life is my background noiseThey say my generation is wasting our lives watching mindless entertainment. But I think things are worse than that. We are now turning our lives into mindless entertainment. Not just consuming slop, but becoming it. We have been posting about our lives for a long time. But now I notice something else, something more than a compulsion to capture and share moments. I see people turning into TV characters, their memories into episodes, themselves into entertainment. We have become the meaningless content, swiped past and scrolled through. Experiences, relationships, even our own children, are cheapened,...

In August, the FBI released its report on national crime statistics for 2024. Over 14 million crimes were reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) by participating law enforcement authorities, including state, county, city, university, and tribal agencies. I was unable to find any comprehensive published analysis of the 2024 data, so I did my own partial study. I was able to extract pertinent data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. I created six tables that I thought might be of interest to American Thinker readers: state violent crime data, state property crime data, and state total crime data....

Feminists in the ’60s and ’70s had a slogan that sought to politicize the household: The personal is political. The rallying cry was meant to challenge traditional family values and the expectation that women should be caring wives and mothers who looked after the home. Breaking free from the “prison” of the nuclear family was described as “liberating” for American women. So-called “student activists” and “black liberation” groups adopted the argument for their own purposes, and protest movements sought out ways to invade Americans’ private spaces. The idea was to make people feel uncomfortable so that they were forced to...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woman remembers when she first moved to the neighborhood more than 20 years ago, and the streets were full of empty storefronts and seemingly relentless poverty. Today, Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor is jammed with businesses, many owned by Somali refugees. “Look at what we did around here,” said Nasra Hassan, a community health worker whose family came to Minneapolis fleeing Somalia’s civil war, speaking one day after the Trump administration slashed the number of refugees allowed into the United States. “Because of us this place is thriving.” Minnesota’s large Somali community was among the immigrant groups...

Yoni Appelbaum’s grandfather was a mailman. Appelbaum shared this fact with me in Charlottesville last week, onstage at a “Democracy360” event hosted by the University of Virginia and cosponsored by The Atlantic, where he is an editor. We were there to talk about “building the American dream” and, by Appelbaum’s account, being a mailman was once a way to do that. “He was proud of that job. And it was enough, together with my grandmother’s job, that they could buy a row house in Canarsie and raise a family.”That was not, however, the point of the story. Rather, Appelbaum wanted...

In those neighborhoods, where civil society breaks down, giving way to anarchy and Haitian-style barbarism, civilization is effectively suspended. Across the United States, the trajectory of inner cities has been one of “inexorable decline” — a descent from centers of economic growth, cultural splendor, and communal solidarity into fragmented, dystopian environments marked by neglect and anarchy. Like mirror images of downtown Port-au-Prince, these urban landscapes, far from civic greatness, have become wastelands defined by abandoned structures, pervasive insecurity, and social disintegration (aggravated by the “homelessness crisis”). The emblematic example of Detroit crystallizes the narrative of urban decline — a Democrat-run...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is unbothered by the firestorm of controversy surrounding the NFL’s selection of crossdressing anti-ICE rapper Bad Bunny as this year’s Super Bowl halftime entertainment. In fact, he thinks the Puerto Rican rapper will deliver a “uniting” performance. The blowback the league received has ranged from NFL fans on social media to President Trump himself. On Wednesday, Goodell addressed not only the criticism of the decision but also the demands that the league hire a different performer. “It’s carefully thought through,” Goodell said while defending the league’s decision. “I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where...

As they grapple with a profound disconnection from their parents and older adults in general, nearly 40% of young adult women in Generation Z — those born between 1999 and 2015 — now identify as religiously unaffiliated, according to new data released by Barna Research. The data from 2,000 adults and teenagers between the ages of 13 and 24 shows that 38% of Gen Z women (ages 18 to 24) currently identify as atheist, agnostic or say they have no faith at all. This is higher than the 32% of men in the same age group who said they are...

Let me be brutally honest here: I hate it when someone makes exactly the same point I’ve been saying for years, except that the other person says it so much better than I did that everyone finally sits up and takes notice. In this case, the point I’ve been making is that the feminization of our institutions is destroying them, and that leftist women are driving the insanity of American politics. I started making the first point more than a decade ago at my blog; I’ve been making the second point relentlessly at American Thinker since 2020.Image created using AI.However,...

“Wherever dispensationalism has gained ground, Christian culture has lost ground.” Although the claim that dispensationalism has hurt the church is not new, it was interesting to see how much agreement the post garnered in the comments. Some commenters labeled dispensationalism as the worst heresy the church has seen. Others said dispensationalism is a damnable heresy which has single-handedly lost the American culture war. In this post I would like to analyze the argument that dispensationalism itself is dangerous and responsible for the cultural loss we see in Western culture today… Setting aside exegetical and interpretive arguments about Scripture for a...