No Treaty Binds America to Israel. A System Does — and It's Only Cracking on One Side of the Aisle.
There's no mutual-defense treaty, and the exceptional part was never the money — it's the UN veto no senator's primary ever turned on. Six reasons hold the relationship up, and no single one is the answer. What decides it is a price: challenging the default costs a politician, keeping it costs someone else. Democrats have doubled their votes against it in seventeen months. Not one Republican has moved.
The Defense Secretary Invited His Mentor to Preach Inside the Pentagon. Here's Who That Mentor Is.
Pastor Doug Wilson wants the 19th Amendment repealed — he told NPR so, and said the reason is that it's "a good idea." In February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had him preach inside the Pentagon, on the Defense Department's own TV network, and thanked him on stage for his mentorship. The Pentagon says Hegseth doesn't share Wilson's view on women voting.
Texas Will Require 5 Million Kids to Study the Bible. You Can Opt Out — but Your Child Can Still Be Tested on It.
Texas voted to put Bible stories into the required reading curriculum for 5.5 million public-school students. Parents can opt a child out of the lessons — but the state admits the child can still be tested on it, including on the standardized STAAR exams. For the ~1 in 3 Texas families who aren’t Christian, that leaves no real way out.