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August 12, 2025
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| Texas Redistricting Circus Heats Up as Blue States and GOP Square Off |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Texas Democrats learned a lot from their melodramatic walkout over an election integrity bill in 2021. But unfortunately for the party of deserters, so did Republicans. This time around, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) not only has the support of the White House but a wealth of tools at his disposal that, four years later, he's even less afraid to use. While the Lone Star fugitives hole up in the leftist bastions of Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York, plotting their resistance like the second coming of Charles de Gaulle, the cold, hard reality is one even the media can't ignore: eventually, the Democrats will have to go home. |
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| Violence against Churches Remains at Unprecedented Level, FRC Report Finds |
| by Alaina Cothran |
| A new report from Family Research Council has found that hostility against churches in the United States remains at unparalleled rates. The report's findings reveal an ongoing trend in America in which vandalism, gun violence, and overall hostility against houses of worship remain at some of the highest rates seen in years. |
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| Trump Takes Over D.C. Police, Combats the Spirit of Lawlessness |
| by Casey Harper |
| President Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency from the White House Monday, citing violent crime. Trump said that he is deploying the National Guard and putting Washington, D.C. police under federal control to fight violent crime in the city. |
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| Trump Prepares for Meeting with Putin as Experts Consider Possible Outcomes |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Branding himself an international peacemaker, President Donald Trump is preparing to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss putting an end to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The meeting, however, is likely to be fraught with geopolitical tensions, especially as European politicians weigh in with their own agendas. As The Washington Stand previously observed, the deadline Trump had established for Putin to agree to a ceasefire - Friday, August 8 - has come and gone. Subsequently, Trump announced that he would meet with Putin in Alaska on Friday, August 15, to negotiate an end to the conflict. |
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| Four Key Cases SCOTUS Will Look at in 2025-2026 Term |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The Supreme Court's next term, beginning in October, promises to keep the nine justices just as active. Here are some of the most important cases already on the Supreme Court's docket for the next year. |
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| China's Cautionary Tale: Suppressing the Havens of Faith and Family |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| For decades, it was the worst human rights abuse in the world. The People's Republic of China, a communist, single-party state, resorted to brute force on the most personal level to ensure most of its families had only one child. The policy lasted nearly 40 years and led to massive financial penalties, forced abortions and sterilizations, and the family separation and hiding of children whose conception and birth were not pre-authorized by the state. Today, the PRC, with a total fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman, barely half of replacement-level fertility, isn't celebrating the achievement of its one-child goal but desperately trying to reverse it and its toxic effects. The campaign is not going well. |
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| Celibacy: Gen Z's Retreat from Hook-Up Culture and the Biblical Call to Higher Living |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| "It's a familiar pattern," wrote Ruby Conway in The Times. "I download the dating apps again; I swipe half-heartedly, I trepidatiously go on a date. It's a process detached from real desire, my hand guided by that of external pressure." No, Conway is not simply expressing her vexations with the modern dating landscape. She's addressing hook-up culture and how she, and apparently a notable percentage of Generation Z, are leaving it behind. |
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