Politics

By Paul Kengor, American Spectator - Vladimir Lenin was said to have boasted that capitalists would give his communists the rope to hang them. The self-anointed keeper of the Marxist flame, co-namesake of history’s deadliest ideology — Marxism-Leninism — would have chortled at what’s happening at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

By Darren Guerra, First Things - Recently, Ross Douthat raised some important questions about the future of evangelicalism in and after the Trump era. Douthat, who is Catholic, cites evangelicals Jared Wilson and Alan Jacobs in order to argue that Trump has forced a “crisis” in evangelicalism. His analysis is thoughtful and intriguing...

By Rob Schwarzwalder, The Stream - The Trend-Overall, “Republicans control 67 chambers, while Democrats are the majority in 32 chambers”… In total, there are 4,144 Republicans in the nation’s state legislatures, and 3,122 Democrats… Put this in context: “The Democratic Party suffered huge losses at every level during Obama’s West Wing tenure,” explained Fox News last month. “The grand total: a net loss of 1,042 state and federal Democratic posts, including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships and the presidency.”

By David Catron, American Spectator - The new regulation, which was published in the Federal Register on January 5, will be available for public comment for 60 days. When it goes into effect, it will allow small employers to band together for the purpose of buying health insurance in the large group market.