Drawing on Pope Leo’s words about migrants as “messengers of hope,” the Kansas bishops’ 2025 pastoral letter on immigration, and the first-ever LGBTQ+ pilgrimage in the Vatican’s Jubilee calendar, Jeff and Ness explore whether these events reflect Christian renewal or betrayal.

Jeff and Ness take the looming federal takeover of Washington, D.C. as a springboard to explore how America defines and politicizes crime — and what that says about the state of the country today.

Jeff and Ness revisit the COVID era, considering its medical, political, and cultural consequences; they also examine recent developments from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding mRNA vaccines.

A deep dive into the meaning of “Heritage American,” the feud between Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and new polling on declining U.S. support for Israel.

Jeff and Ness explore Zohran Mamdani’s gilded socialism, apply Charles Darwin’s theories to homo sapiens, and sift through new polling data on Russian election interference.

Jeff and Ness unpack Tucker Carlson’s problematic Noticing and examine how the Trump Administration handled — or failed to handle — the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Jeff and Ness examine early voter pushback to core second-term priorities of the second Trump Administration.

Ness assesses how well Wizards of the Coast did with its Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set and uses the opportunity as an excuse to air some thoughts about both games

Ness and Jeff unpack the story of Zohran Mamdani — from exile in Uganda to political power in New York — and explore how his journey reflects a broader blueprint for market minorities navigating power, race, and elite institutions in the United States.

Jeff and Ness discuss the results of the 2024 Democratic mayoral primary and its implications.