Peter Wehner

The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace.

Responsibility for the storming of the Capitol extends well beyond President Trump.

The GOP needs leaders who will distance their party from the wreckage and the ruin the president has brought.

Those who have hoped that Republican leaders would begin to break free from Donald Trump once he lost the election have not understood the nature of the change that has come over the party’s base.

First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly radical and radically inclusive figure Jesus was, and neither are today’s Christians. We want to tame and domesticate who he was, but Jesus’ life and ministry don’t really allow for it.

The president is discussing martial law in the Oval Office, as his grip on reality falters.

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

Because we are a nation so fractured that each side barely comprehends the other, this is a time for magnanimity.

If Donald Trump loses his re-election bid, there will be a lot of ruin to sort through. But his most damaging and enduring legacy may well turn out to be the promiscuous use of conspiracy theories that have defined both the man and his presidency.

In a different time, with a different president, Joe Biden would not stand out. But President Trump’s particular maladies have created a moment in which Biden’s greatest strengths as a person are most needed by the nation.

If evangelical supporters of Trump are honest, they should admit—at least to themselves, if not to the rest of the world—that something has gone terribly amiss and that the power they have achieved is coming at the expense of the faith they proclaim.

The issue on which the president is most vulnerable, and that he has done everything in his power to obscure—the pandemic—is now, because of his own illness, front and center in the presidential campaign.