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Nearly every demographic group moved noticeably rightward in America’s recent election. Even young women — among the most reliably left-leaning voting blocs — moved away from monolithic support for Democrats, but a significant gender gap of over 20 points persists between Gen Z women and men. Trump got only 33% of the 18-29 female vote in 2020; he got 40% in 2024. Compare this with 41% of the male vote in the same age group in 2020 and 49% in 2024. Triumphalism at Trump’s victory should not obscure the long-term challenge posed by that gap. This gender gap is often...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder. A gutter full of dry leaves is a cradle for an inferno. Think of a rosebush against a bedroom window: fire food. The roses burn first, melting the vinyl seal around the window. The glass pane falls. A shoal of embers enter the house like a school...

[Catholic Caucus] Here’s how the faithful should respond to the evil of Liberal CatholicismThe formula to address the evil of Liberal Catholicism is surely the same as the formula for addressing almost every evil that has plagued the Mystical Body of Christ through the centuries: we should unwaveringly defend the unadulterated Catholic religion and try to become saints.Two recent statements from Bishop Joseph Strickland highlight the opportunities and challenges facing serious Catholics today. In his reflections on the 2024 elections, Bishop Strickland encouraged Catholics to take advantage of the opportunity to “bring the light of Christ more powerfully to the...

[Catholic Caucus] Defense by Word Twisting: Mayan Rite Not a Mayan Rite, the Liturgical Dance not a Liturgical DanceThe Mexican Bishops’ Conference felt the need to justify its "Mayan Rite" in a statement last Friday. They responded to "different interpretations" which were in fact persuasive criticisms.The bishops claim that there is no Mayan rite, no ritual dances and no Mayan altars.According to them, the new Eucharist "does not constitute a new rite or a substantial change in the structure of the Roman Missal".The Mayan rite is an "optional adaptation" to the Novus Ordo.The Bishops do not want to speak of...

A Minnesota dad who ranted against President-elect Donald Trump online shot and killed his wife, ex-partner, and his two sons before turning the gun on himself, according to authorities. The shooter, 46-year-old Anthony Nephew, had a “pattern of mental health issues,” Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa said on Friday — one day after authorities found five people dead inside two homes in the city. Authorities found Anthony Nephew’s ex-partner Erin Abramson, 47, and their son, Jacob Nephew, 15, dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside their home Thursday afternoon, police said.

Let them cry it out. Liberals in deep-blue New York City shocked and disturbed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory are flooding shrinks’ inboxes looking for appointments. “It’s a perfect storm for New York therapists,” said Manhattan psychologist Chloe Carmichael, who estimated she’s received a 15% spike in inquiries from patients. “It’s a repeat of 2016, where a lot of people feel really scared and traumatized and angry.” A staggering 69% of people felt anxious or frustrated about the presidential election, according to a poll taken before Trump’s runaway win. On Wednesday morning, New York City-based psychotherapist Alyson Cohen woke...

Donald Trump’s divisive win in the US presidential elections this week has left many American women fearful for their future. The Republican victory took place amid an unparalleled conservative rollback against women’s rights, leaving many anxious about their already vulnerable personal autonomy and freedoms. In response, many women have rallied behind the 4B movement – a radical feminist initiative that rejects marriage, dating, childbirth and having sex with men. This movement, inspired by a similar push in South Korea, has gained momentum on social media as an assertion of resistance. A viral post on X proclaimed, "Ladies, we need to...

Donald Trump was elected president again last night. After being voted out of office in 2020. After trying to rig the vote and then to overthrow the government by force in the wake of that loss. After all but welcoming a pandemic that ended up killing more than a million of us. After ripping away abortion care rights from millions of American women. After being impeached, twice. After being convicted of multiple felonies. After dogging it on the campaign trail, playing to emptying halls while speaking in demented tongues unknown even to him. After all of that, and God knows...

by Torrance Stephens, PhDOver the past several years, sex has become more politicized than ever before. This effort has been mainly due to rhetoric from the progressive left. From pronouns to biological men competing against women in sports to a person who can say they are a man or a woman and promote that we should believe them. There is also the liberal attack on men in general, on so-called toxic masculinity, misogyny, and the patriarchy. Now the Democrat party is upset they are losing the vote of men, black men in particular. The party that nominated a Supreme Court...

I’ve long argued corporate media’s job is not to inform, but to enforce political orthodoxy and police the allowable boundaries of approved thought. So I was intrigued by yesterday’s otherwise useless New York Times article headlined, “‘Pod Save America’ Won’t Quit.” The article was just free advertising for a far-left podcast, but it included an astonishing admission. This particular podcast launched in 2016 right after Trump’s election as a part of the ‘#Resist’ movement. Seeded with Soros funding, this far-left show with its three white male hosts is now arguably partisan Democrats’ most popular podcast. “They were the Obama government...

When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness. But how to explain group suicide? There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, many of the Jewish fighters besieged in the “bunker” at Miła 18 committed mass suicide by ingesting poison rather than surrender to the Nazis.In 1945, about 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany, committed mass suicide after the Red Army had sacked the town.In 1978,...

This is the most powerful explanation of the evil of abortion I've seen. This two minute video on abortion is worth watching. There is no accompanying text with the video of Seth Gruber with Pastor Jack Hibbs. Yes, it was originally posted on TikTok, but don't let that deter you. It has been reposted on X by Brandon Morse with the explanation "I’ve never seen abortion described this way as a concept and now I’ll never look at it the same. It truly is a display of contempt against Christ when you strip away all the window dressing."

I give England until the end of 2025 at the latest before it is no longer recognizable. Don't laugh; I give the U.S. until the end of 2027 at best, but that is a whole other column. The Church of England has apparently joined the pronoun movement. Of course, none of this should come as a surprise to anyone, but it is still a shame. According to a report in the Telegraph, the Church has decided to stop using the word "church" in order to be more modern. I don't know what word they will use. Lodge? Club? Association? The...

From the beginning of recorded history, humans have made monumental decisions based upon the needs of their children. Some parents would move far away from the land in which they themselves were born and raised, because they wanted their children to have a better chance in the world. The Pilgrims, who left England, and many who followed them, came to America both for religious freedom, and a better future for their children. Many may remember the television series based upon Laura Ingalls Wilders’ novel, Little House on The Prairie. It’s the story of a man who moved west so...

Say what you will about us on the Right, but we are willing to call out or own when they start embarrassing themselves or misrepresenting the rest of us. We keep blowhards like Majorie Taylor-Greene at arm's length. We've long since tired of hearing Hannity turn every other conversation into a banal trumpeting of his martial arts skills. The door hit George Santos on the way out. But aside from a few noble voices, the Left refuses to do any such thing within its own camp. My gut feeling is that your traditional liberal (the sophomoric yard signs and the...

Ronald Reagan, a former Democrat, used to say, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party; it left me.” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) seems to be undergoing a similar transformation. Elected as a progressive Democrat who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders's failed run for the presidency, he recently told a reporter, "I'm not a progressive; I just identified myself as a regular Democrat. Now, eight years ago, I was a progressive, but the situation's changed, and I‘ve been clear that I didn‘t leave that label. That label left me.” Don’t get me wrong, I don’t fully equate Fetterman leaving his party the way...

Among the many women who claim that they’d feel safer encountering a bear in the forest than a man (because “men are scary”) is author and Guggenheim fellow Julia Phillips. Perhaps it is not men or bears that present the most danger in the forest. Not only do women initiate domestic violence against men (we just don’t report it), but they are also going on violent rampages in forests. Just look at these raving woods women who have completely lost all sense of equanimity. Yikes. It seems their electro-chemical imbalances are disrupting their brains’ normal neuro pathways. So disturbed are...

After tossing Jewish voters overboard to accommodate the Hamas supporters of Dearborn, Michigan, the Democrats are starting to get nervous about the choice they made. Despite the rollout of the campaign, beginning with Senator Schumer’s floor speech blasting Israel, and various liberal Jewish surrogates, including Rep. Jerry Nadler, vocally opposing the campaign against Hamas, the Democrats did not manage to sell Jews on Biden’s betrayal. Biden’s declaration that he would stop providing military support to Israel if it continued to pursue Hamas into Rafah touched off a major backlash from donors, like Haim Saban, from celebrities, like Michael Rappaport, who...

Video interview of Alexsandr Dugan conducted by Tucker Carlson discussing the future of humanity.

In the latest obvious attack on God, believers, and the biblical worldview, the Biden Democrats used a high-profile opportunity to offend Christians. Days before Easter, they banned religious (read “Christian”) images at the White House and also declared March 31 (Resurrection Sunday) the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” Make no mistake: this is the new religion of the Left. Vice President Kamala Harris passionately proclaimed, …“we celebrate transgender and nonbinary Americans,” and said, “We won’t stop fighting for you.” Well, they did put a bunny rabbit (which has nothing to do with Jesus) in the White House logo. As criticism erupted...