Mark Silk

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  • May 5, 2026
    The armed man who sought to break into the White House Correspondents' dinner hails from a long line of religious extremists looking to commit political violence in the name of God.
  • Apr 14, 2026
    Like the journalist Lincoln Steffens, who, after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919, wrote, “I have seen the future, and it works,” America’s Christian nationalists...
  • Mar 27, 2026
    In case you haven’t noticed, Republican politicians are back to playing the anti-Shariah card. Examples are legion, but start with last September, when Texas Gov. Greg...
  • Feb 11, 2026
    At a press conference last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked by a reporter to respond to Pope Leo XIV’s use of the 25th chapter of the Gospel of...
  • Feb 4, 2026
    The closest analogue in American history to the current protests against the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation tactics is what happened after passage of the...
  • Jan 21, 2026
    “Inherently problematic” understates the force of Paul’s injunction.  Paul was exhorting the small communities of Jesus followers of his time to pacifically...