Dan Schaefer for Missouri

The moral test of our time is not whether we can avoid conflict, but whether we can face it with courage. Each time we fail that test, the moral line retreats a little farther into the darkness, dragging democracy with it.

The Trump Administration is preparing to provide $20 billion in assistance to help prop up the Argentine government. This may sound like a noble gesture, but behind the scenes, Argentina is actively competing with American soybean farmers. In essence, we’re funding our competitors!

Politicians lecture voters about outside money while raking it in

Medicare was created to protect seniors from financial ruin. It has evolved into a lifeline for tens of millions of Americans. But it faces threats — from insolvency, from predatory drug pricing, and from private insurers who exploit its brand while undermining its mission.

Are we willing to let our government decide who belongs in America based on how they look, how they sound, or what they believe? Today, the victims are immigrants. Tomorrow, it could be any one of us.

A quiet experiment is about to transform Medicare, and if we don’t pay attention, it will destroy America’s most trusted healthcare program.

When politicians answer to their wealthy donors instead of their voters, democracy becomes a privilege of wealth, not a right of the people.

The conflict between the wealthy elite and the working class isn’t a polite debate. It’s a street fight for the American dream we once cherished. It’s time we started acting like it.

Texas is in a standoff. Greg Abbott wants to redraw the maps. Democrats fled the state. No quorum, no gerrymander. It's Texas Hold ’em—with democracy on the run.

The Epstein scandal may be a moral flashpoint, but it’s a temporary one. Confusing the moment for the movement would be a profound strategic mistake.

One has to stand in awe at the mental distance traveled over the decades; a voyage that began with Reagan calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire,” and ended with American conservatives crawling on their knees in Red Square.

Conservative lawmakers want to gut the public school system, strip it for parts, and hand it over to private interests. Meanwhile, the U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world in academic performance.

America doesn’t lack housing. It lacks affordable housing.

Josh Hawley’s theology of governance isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It replaces pluralism with dogma, justice with hierarchy, and democracy with dominion. His vision may not wear jackboots, but it marches in the same direction: toward a society where dissent is sin, where rights are contingent on obedience, and where government is no longer of the people—but of the chosen.

When some lawmakers stop winning public support, they stop trying to earn it. Instead, they use their power to force their views on the rest of us.

We cling to an 18th-century structure and hope that somehow it will withstand the pressures of a 21st-century society. Clearly, our Constitution has hit a breaking point.

What kind of nation will we become when both our news and our entertainment are held hostage by billionaires eager to please a mafia don? How do we stay connected when our channels of satire, storytelling, and shared truths are weaponized to keep us silent?

Democracy only survives when people believe it works for them, providing justice, opportunity, and dignity. When those promises are broken, faith in democracy collapses.

There's a growing movement that's quietly transforming America, dismantling the wall between church and state.

The Show-Me Institute claims to champion the cause of liberty. But the only thing they seek to liberate is your money from your wallet.