Nobody predicted that Matt Bevin would beat Democrat candidate for governor Jack Conway by nine points. Nobody. The Bluegrass Poll had Conway up by five points just days before the election. We learned last year that the same poll was wildly off target when it had...

This election season has been brutal. Millions have been spent by candidates and PACs to criticize and attack the opposition. Many Kentuckians I've talked to over the last couple of weeks are tired of negative campaigning and can't wait for it to be over....

Many of us have read about the road fund mess in Illinois that is beyond the ability of the state to fix.  Then came the Great Budget Impasse of 2015 (since July15).  The legislature has been deadlocked and is months overdue in passing a...

With the 2015 election season nearing the finish line, voter guides of all political stripes have made their rounds, including the Commonwealth Policy Center's. It focuses entirely on social issues and asks candidates’ views on the defense of the unborn,...

In the last week the airwaves have been replete with stories and commentaries on the bombshell revelation concerning allegations about The University of Louisville basketball’s less-than-honorable recruiting tactics. The claims center around an assistant coach...

Rebecca Traister, writing in New York Magazine, says that when it comes to sex, women are in a permanent position of disadvantage and injustice in our culture. All sex--even consensual sex--is dominated by a "power imbalance" that favors men and...

Having watched two Republican debates and the most recent Democratic debate, there are a couple of observations we can surmise from them. Principally we can say that sometimes—and especially in nationally televised debates—less is more. The sheer amount of...

One thing I've read a lot lately from some contemporary progressive evangelical writers is this: If a particular belief makes relationships difficult, or makes people around you feel alienated or upset, you should probably stop believing that doctrine. The logic...

In a column on his website titled “Bad News, Indeed - Playboy Opened the Floodgates and Now the Culture is Drowning,” Christian theologian and former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler laments the recent announcement that the...

Yesterday Planned Parenthood leadership announced that it would stop receiving "reimbursements" for the donation of fetal tissue taken from aborted babies. It was a curious declaration, one that could be summarized (as my boss Russell Moore put it)...