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The co-hosts compare notes on the most captivating political dramas of the summer, from Fauci’s Senate hearing to China’s rise on the international stage
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November
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Andy Burnham hasn't even been Prime Minister for two weeks, but the early verdict is positive. He's looked decisive, commanded the agenda and projected authority. The question is: will that matter? New governments often think they know what will define them but history has a habit of intervening. The biggest political events are often the ones nobody sees coming. Could the next defining crisis already be taking shape? This week saw a bruising sell-off in AI stocks as investors questioned whet...
As Eddie Howe dramatically quits Newcastle 3 weeks before the start of a new Premier League season, Mark Chapman & guests unpack the financial meltdown which led to Newcastle losing their most successful coach for 70 years. The Athletic’s Chris Waugh explains the timing of Eddie Howe’s decision and asks if club captain Bruno Guimares’ seemingly imminent departure to Arsenal was the final straw? But how did Newcastle, a club with some of the richest owners in world football, find themselves in...
Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Scot McKnight, Jesus, People, Pharisees: Exploring the Conflict in Galilee (Fortress Press, 2026) On more than a dozen occasions in this provocative book, Scot McKnight claims the Gospels are exaggerating. Some of these exaggerations, of numbers and geographical reach, he regards as relatively minor and forgivable. Read more. The post How Jesus Sounded to a First-Century Galilean appeared first on Christianity Today