This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:14 - 06:50)
Why Has President Trump Has Declared War on Harvard? A Open Challenge to a Bastion of the Educational Elites

• Does the President Want to Fix Harvard or Destroy It? by The Wall Street Journal (Jason L. Riley)

Part II (06:50 - 10:16)
‘Trust Us, We Won the Johan Skytte Award’: The Self-Congratulatory Condescension of the Academic Elites

• Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out by Financial Times (Francis Fukuyama and others)

Part III (10:16 - 16:27)
President Trump Changed the Political Landscape: Americans Now Believe That Republicans Represent the Working Class, and Democrats Represent the Elites

• How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape by The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher)

Part IV (16:27 - 21:50)
‘Be Normal. Sound Normal.’: Democrats are Attempting to Dump Their Woke Jargon, But Not Their Woke Ideologies– But It’s Not Working

• Democrats ditch woke jargon to win back Trump voters by The Telegraph (Benedict Smith)

Part V (21:50 - 25:58)
Woke Education is the Left’s Agenda: The Left Wants Your Kids, and They are Targeting Them Through Schools

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Part I (00:14 - 17:10)
So Who Knew What When About Biden’s Cognitive Decline? ‘Original Sin’ Has Revised History and Is Raising Big Questions About Who’s Responsible for This Cover-Up

• Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Penguin Random House (Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson)
• Jake Tapper Uncovers Startling Evidence That Biden’s Decline Was Covered Up By Jake Tapper by The Babylon Bee
• ‘Original Sin’ and Foreign Policy by The Wall Street Journal (Walter Russell Mead)
• ‘Original Sin’ Review: A Conspiracy in Plain View by The Wall Street Journal (Tunku Varadarajan)

Part II (17:10 - 24:16)
The ‘Unreliable Boyfriend’ Problem? UK Prime Minister Starmer Appears to Have a Conviction Problem

• Keir Starmer’s unreliable boyfriend problem by Financial Times (Robert Shrimsley)
• A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve by The Guardian (John Harris)

Part III (24:16 - 25:23)
Christian Leadership is a Call to Conviction – God’s People Need Convictional Leadership




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Part I (00:14 - 09:07)
Evil Seized an Opportunity in the U.S. Embassy: A Horrific Attack in the Name of ‘Free Palestine’ Leads to the Murder of Two Israeli Diplomats

• How Israel tries to shield its diplomats from attack by Financial Times (James Shotter and Neri Zilber and Mehul Srivastava)
• Days Before a Marriage Proposal, They Were Killed in D.C. by The New York Times (John YoonIsabel Kershner and Natan Odenheimer)

Part II (09:07 - 13:57)
A ‘Fuller Way’ on LGBTQ Issues? Fuller Seminary Trustees Reaffirm Stance on Homosexuality – But How Will That Square with Its Faculty Members and Student Body Who are Affirming?

• Fuller Seminary Reaffirms Historic LGBTQ Stance by Christianity Today (Daniel Silliman)

Part III (13:57 - 24:21)
There is No Third Way to Faithfulness: Every Christian Institution Must Resolve to Be Faithful to Scripture No Matter the Cost

Part IV (24:21 - 27:18)
The Boggle Puzzle Solved – Researcher Finally Solves the Mystery of Highest Possible Boggle Score

• Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle’s top-scoring board by Financial Times (Oliver Roeder)

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Part I (00:13 - 04:32)
Religious Liberty Was Hamstrung Yesterday: The 4-4 Split Led to a Major Religious Liberty Loss in Oklahoma

• OK Charter School Board v. Drummond by The U.S. Supreme Court

Part II (04:32 - 10:45)
The Left is Now Furious with Target: The Company Offended Many Christians With LGBTQ Advocacy, Now Target Backs Off DEI, and the Left is Losing Their Minds

• Target shares fall after hit from tariffs and store boycotts by Financial Times (Gregory Meyer)

Part III (10:45 - 16:34)
Why Don’t You Believe Churchill Was a Christian? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part IV (16:34 - 20:33)
What Does Fallen Asleep Mean in 1 Thessalonians 4:13? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part V (20:33 - 22:42)
In the Parable of the Soils, Do the Rocky Soil People Go to Hell? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part VI (22:42 - 25:34)
Can I Officiate the Wedding of Unbelievers? Should I Share the Gospel at That Wedding? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing




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Part I (00:14 - 12:47)
Feminism and Transgenderism at Odds: Lesbians Want to Be Liberated from the LBGT Revolution

• Why lesbians want out of the LGBT Movement by The Spectator (Julie Bindel)

Part II (12:47 - 16:19)
Creation Order Asserts Itself: Creation Order Breaks Through Everywhere, Even in the Wake of the Sexual Liberation Movement

• Why the trans debacle matters by The Spectator (Lionel Shriver)

Part III (16:19 - 18:38)
Decadence and Debauchery: The Absurdity of Gender Ideologies

Part IV (18:38 - 26:47)
The Disaster of ‘You are What You Look Like’ — Confronting a Dangerous and Seductive Claim

• Age is Irrelevant by Financial Times (Triny Woodall)

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Part I (00:14 - 14:32)
Is the U.S. Fighting the Wrong War? The Complicated Nature of the U.S. Response to the Houthis

• The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map by The New York Times (Nicholas Kristof)

Part II (14:32 - 21:57)
Austin is a New Kind of Weird? Is the Texas Capital, A Blue Dot in a Red State, Changing its Color?

• Austin Welcomed Musk. Now It’s Weird (in a New Way). by The New York Times (J. David Goodman)

Part III (21:57 - 25:15)
The Parable of Radioactive Toothpaste: The Importance of Humility in the Modern Age

• Half-Life podcast is a compelling story of radioactive toothpaste and poison gas — review by Financial Times (Fiona Sturges)

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Part I (00:14 - 00:42)
Former President Biden Has Cancer - We are Praying for the Former President in Light of His Diagnosis

Part II (00:42 - 08:09)
Why Is Travel Not Producing World Peace? Cosmopolitanism Isn't Bringing People Together

• Why travel didn’t bring the world together by Financial Times (Janan Ganesh)

Part III (08:09 - 14:39)
Global Peace Through International Law? No, Reason and Rules Are Not Enough to Bring Nations Together

• Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started? by The Guardian (Patrick Wintour)

Part IV (14:39 - 23:30)
The Preconditions of an Ordered Society: Haiti is Lacking the Foundational Necessities of an Ordered Society And an The Problem Cannot Be Solved by Military Intervention

• The U.S. needs a plan to stop Haiti’s free fall by The Washington Post (The Editorial Board)

Part V (23:30 - 25:48)
The Theological Foundation of a Rightly Ordered Society: Creation Order Must Be Established Before a Society Can Flourish




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Part I (00:14 - 11:36)
A Massive Cover-Up from the White House: New Book Details the Cover-Up of Former President Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline

• Joe Biden ‘redemption tour’ backfires as cognitive doubts resurface by Financial Times (Myles McCormick)
• Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Penguin Random House (Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson)
• Joe Biden Was Unfit in 2020 by The Wall Street Journal (Barton Swaim)
• Can Biden Recover in South Carolina? by The Wall Street Journal (Barton Swaim)

Part II (11:36 - 16:58)
The History of Presidential Age Issues in the Oval Office: Should Raise Big Questions for Americans

Part III (16:58 - 20:51)
The Biblical Worldview and Age: The Bible Honors Elders, But It Also Includes the Need for Healthy Succession

Part IV (20:51 - 26:35)
President Trump’s Trip to the Middle East: The President’s Unique Form of Transactional Realism in Foreign Policy

• What Democrats can learn from Trump’s approach to the Middle East by Financial Times (Philip Gordon)

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Part I (00:14 - 13:55)
The Deaths of Two Heroic Code Breakers: Two Obituaries Reveal Two Women’s Heroic Lives From WWII That They Kept Secret For Decades

• Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 by The New York Times (Michael S. Rosenwald)
• Betty Webb never spoke about her work, until she had to by The Economist

Part II (13:55 - 15:53)
Is It Wrong for a Woman to Hold the Title of Children’s Pastor? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part III (15:53 - 18:24)
When Seagulls and Raccoons Steal Food, Are They Sinning? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 11-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part IV (18:24 - 19:48)
What is the Most Important Symbolic Number in the Bible? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part V (19:48 - 21:49)
Is It Wrong to Use Other Words in Place of Curse Words? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 16-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part VI (21:49 - 26:01)
What are the Differences Between the Models of Biblical Counseling and Integrationism? What Dangers Do You See with Integration? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing




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Part I (00:14 - 09:13)
Pete Rose Removed from ‘Permanently Ineligible’ List for Major League Baseball. Hall of Fame Next? Commissioner’s Recent Statement Raises Big Moral Questions

• A Letter from Commissioner Manfred to Jeffrey M. Lenkov by Major League Baseball Office of the Commissioner (Robert D. Manfred Jr.)

Part II (09:13 - 16:16)
Russia’s New ‘Frankenstein’ Missile: Russia’s Latest Missile is Sign of the Times, and Things to Come

• Russia’s new ‘Frankenstein’ missile terrorising Ukraine by The Telegraph (Iona Cleave)

Part III (16:16 - 25:28)
The Prophet of Soft Power: Influential Political Scientist and National Security Official Joseph Nye, Dies at 88

• Joseph Nye, Political Scientist Who Extolled ‘Soft Power,’ Dies at 88 by The New York Times (Trip Gabriel)

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