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The Easter Attacks That Weren't News
While dozens of Christians were killed at worship during Holy Week, their deaths received almost no international attention
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The Catacomb Test: When Worship Goes Underground Again
China's crackdown on house churches mirrors early Christian persecution, but with a crucial difference: surveillance technology that should make evasion…
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Why Easter Never Became Christmas
Dioceses report record Easter conversions while secular America ignores it entirely. The theological resistance to commercialization that kept Easter…
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Passover and Easter: The Date Convergence That Makes the Connection Visible Again
Good Friday falls on the date scholars believe Jesus was crucified in AD 33, while Easter and Passover converge for the first time since 1912—a…
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March 2026

When Christians Become Convenient Enemies
Iran’s theocratic government uses persecution of religious minorities to reinforce state ideology amid mounting internal and external pressure.
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The Bullet That Didn't Know Why
How the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt reveals what's genuinely new about algorithm-fueled conspiratorial violence
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What Monday Morning Costs When You Choose Principle Over Promises
From Palm Sunday to Table Flipping to the war with Iran, When the Crowd That Cheered You Yesterday Won't Tomorrow
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The Apocalypse That Wasn't: A History of Premature Panic
From Niagara Falls going silent to Halley's Comet hysteria, history reveals why we're so bad at telling the difference between temporary disruption and…
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Crypto Heist: The Face That Didn't Exist
Treasury's new report reveals how AI-generated synthetic identities defeated bank verification systems—and why the solution is more AI
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The Paper Cup Theory of Espionage
The CIA just published something remarkable, an admission that the future of spying looks a lot like the past.
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The Podcast Cave: How the Conspiracist Right Built Plato's Perfect Prison
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” ― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
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The Gatekeepers of Digital Truth
How a tool built for collaborative accuracy became an instrument of narrative control
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