Topic: religion
The Pentagon’s new religion office is likely legal; how it is used is the test
Courts have upheld the military chaplaincy for 40 years, so Hegseth’s office is on firm ground. Coercion and favoring one faith are the limits, and parts of his record press on both.
The Denial Thesis: Checking a Popular Argument About Trump’s Voters
Verdicts: 1 True, 1 Mostly True, 1 Mixed, 2 Unproven, 2 Misleading, 3 False
The individual facts in the argument mostly hold. The causal story bolted onto them does not, and on the two claims where the data can test a sequence, the arrow runs the other way.