A look at how different outcomes affect control of the Senate and the most common ways that each party clinches a majority

A possible retirement of one of history’s most radical justices in history looms large over the midterms.

As reported in The Buckeye Flame, President Trump made a campaign visit to Ohio on Saturday and used his tired trope of anti-trans rhetoric.

The new Supreme Court term begins this week.

Seats continue to shift in Democrats’ direction

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

As the October 2026 Term begins, it's worth taking a moment to highlight the *real* final statistics for the Court’s output during the October 2025 Term.

I heard a song this week that made me think about non-gendered love songs and how few there are....

The justices return to court for a key case that could block one way of confronting climate change. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

October 4, 2026

Life is suffering.

Jane Doe is the name by which we know the young woman who has come forward to say she was gang raped in a room at the Chi Phi fraternity house while she was a student at Cornell in 2024.

Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race

Marylanders have a chance in November to turn the tide against one of the worst tactics in American politics.

This essay (and several more in this series) is based on a paper I presented at the 2026 Undiscovered C.S.

Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

Everything you need to know about the two new lawsuits targeting abortion providers & pro-choice states

Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.

Democrats are now about 3 in 4 favorites to capture the U.S. House

“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”

Republicans are fretting that their gerrymander scheme may be backfiring hard

The State of U.S. Vaccine Policy, plus a closer look at whether COVID vaccines lower the risk of long COVID

O God, make speed to save us!

A Message from Bishop Mariann Budde

A condensed overview of 20 hours of Fox News for the week ending 9/27/26

Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report should be public. Donald Trump wants to keep that from happening.

Sen. Ron Wyden announced another undisclosed FBI Form FD-302, raising questions about what else the government is hiding.

On C.S. Lewis, Master Signifiers, and the Difference Between an Idol and a Man

“Third-country removals” raise a host of difficult procedural and substantive questions. The Supreme Court should have answered those questions *before* greenlighting deportations to torture.

Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.

This Friday, Donald Trump will be in Mobile, Alabama, the place where his first campaign really started to gain traction after then-Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III threw his support ...

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

9.30.26

Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are looking at two cases about executive powers. The cases we are looking at today are [Seditious Traitor] v Slaughter and [Seditious Traitor] v Cook. Today'...

A reading from “Grounded” for the Season of Creation

Plus kids’ flu and COVID vaccines, when to toss your makeup, and my experience trying to find a therapist

The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.

If you’re going to come for Jack Smith, you’d better have double-checked your work.

Fear Trumps Facts

When gotchas go disastrously wrong.

Health equity is caught in the crossfire

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

A guide for the perplexed. And yes, it does say something about the state of the Republican Party

Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...