By mid-summer, Chevron deference as we know it may be history. The Supreme Court could reform or even eliminate its forty-year-old doctrine that federal courts should generally defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. 　　How would the end of Chevron deference affect our constitutional institutions? It’s far too soon to know—and not just because the Supreme Court...

　　“He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in...

　　On May 5, Panamanians will vote for a new president. The outcome of this election may have consequences for far more than its 4.4 million residents; it could change the migration reality for the hundreds of thousands of people traveling from South America, Asia, and Africa who pass through the Central American country en route to the United States. 　　Leading...

　　On May 5, Panamanians will vote for a new president. The outcome of this election may have consequences for far more than its 4.4 million residents; it could change the migration reality for the hundreds of thousands of people traveling from South America, Asia, and Africa who pass through the Central American country en route to the United States. 　　Leading...

　　What future exists for American conservatism? As a lifelong conservative, I answer this question by looking to the past. The American conservative tradition has produced a host of luminaries since the 1952 publication of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, but there is one figure in particular that conservatives would do well to rediscover: poet and historian Peter Viereck (1916–2006). 　　Viereck...

　　In the 2004 film Collateral, silver-haired assassin Vincent (Tom Cruise) forces cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to taxi him to his various would-be targets throughout the night. In an early scene, an unsuspecting Max is patiently waiting outside when a dead body falls from a second-story window onto the hood of his cab. When Vincent returns to the scene and...

　　The fascination with the sea is as old as man. The famous cry—thalatta, thalatta—of Xenophon’s beleaguered 10,000 Greek soldiers (or of what remained of them) upon seeing the familiar waters of the Black Sea after returning from war, showed a loving familiarity with the sea. The Romans embraced the Mediterranean as their own sea—Mare Nostrum—even if they faced it with...

　　George Orwell said that Charles Dickens was an author well worth stealing, which is to say, attaching to one’s cause whatever it might be. If you can say Dickens would have thought likewise, you are claiming the approval not only of a genius, but of a man of deeply generous and humane nature (never mind any squalid revelations about his...

　　A Prayer to Prepare Our Hearts for Our Nation's National Day of Prayer 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　“You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. As for God, His way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless” - 2 Samuel...

　　United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly Wednesday overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nations second-largest Protestant body. 　　With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of self-avowed practicing homosexualsa prohibition that dates to 1984. 　　With...

　　Freedom in Grace 　　Weekly Overview: 　　Grace is a gift most of us don’t know how to receive. We’ve been so inundated with the earthly systems of give-and-get and work-and-earn that grace is a concept few ever fully grasp. Yet it’s grace alone that has the power to transform lives. Grace alone has the power to bring freedom to the captives....

　　In many countries, politicians try to win over religious voters by highlighting areas of shared interest between their agenda and the faithfuls priorities. In Venezuela, candidates are offering pastors cash. 　　With less than three months until Venezuelas presidential elections, incumbent Nicols Maduro is expanding two initiatives specifically aimed at the evangelical community, which represents 30.9 percent of the countrys population....