political power

News Analysis: Prop. 50 is just one part of a historically uncertain moment for American democracy

October 31, 2025 · World News

Is President Trump going to restart nuclear weapons testing? When will this federal shutdown end? Will Californians pass Proposition 50, scramble the state’s congressional maps and shake up…

The Confederate General Whom All the Other Confederates Hated

November 13, 2023 · Politics

During the summer of 1997, my wife and I picked up our 9-year-old daughter from a ballet camp in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and drove to the nearby Gettysburg National…

The Woman Who Bought a Mountain for God

June 20, 2023 · Politics

On the day she heard God tell her to buy a mountain, Tami Barthen already sensed that her life was on a spiritual upswing. She’d recently divorced and…