Politics

By Yoram Hazony, First Things - In the United States, for example, some 40 percent of children are today born outside of marriage. The overall fertility rate has fallen to 1.76 children per woman. American children for the most part receive twelve years of public schooling that is scrubbed clean of God and Scripture. And it is now possible to lose one’s livelihood or even to be prosecuted for maintaining traditional Christian or Jewish views on various subjects.

By Peter Jesserer Smith, EWTN News - The First Step Act now proceeds to President Donald Trump for signing into law, after its approval by wide bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate. The final version sent to the president’s desk includes both prison reform and sentencing reform measures that aim to rehabilitate federal prisoners and strengthen public safety.

By Henry Rodgers, The Stream - President Donald Trump said the federal government will remain shut down unless there is an agreement on some type of border wall or fence… “I can’t tell you when the government is going to reopen … [Not until] we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it….” “It’s a barrier from drugs. There is a problem in this world today called human trafficking … We are not going to let that take place. We are working so hard to catch these traffickers. They are bad people. We can’t do it without a barrier, we can’t do it without a wall,” Trump continued.