Discern Report

The tall ships are weighing anchor. The last of the fireworks ash has settled onto driveways from Boston to San Diego. Philadelphia has lowered a one-ton stainless steel time capsule into the ground at Independence National Historical Park, sealed until 2276. America's 250th birthday, the largest coordinated celebration in the nation's history, is now in the past tense. And the most important ques...

10 Ways to Know Your Government Has Become Tyrannical: 1. "Emergency measures" that mysteriously outlive the emergency. 2. The classroom becomes a pipeline for ideology, and curiosity gets treated as a defect. 3. Information gets gatekept, and stepping out of line comes with consequences. 4. Disagreement gets rebranded as extremism; the critic becomes the criminal. 5. Group identity is weaponized...

There are political ways to defeat the Islamists and there are spiritual ways to educate Muslims. It behooves us to understand the difference between the two.

Every year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flow to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States. Money is fungible — every federal dollar that covers their rent, their staff, and their overhead is a dollar freed up for what they are best known for. For decades, the many Americans who object to subsidizing the abortion industry with their own taxes have asked a s...

The prophet Amos asked a question that the modern American left cannot answer without imploding. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? It is a reasonable question, and the honest reply is no. Two cannot walk together unless they have agreed on where they are going. Which makes the spectacle of “Queers for Palestine” one of the strangest processions in political history, a movement marching...

Chris Rabb secured the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District as an open member of the Democratic Socialists of America. During a recent appearance connected to New York DSA organizing, he described the task ahead in terms that left little room for ambiguity. The work, he said, requires fighting fascism by refashioning an entire society and changing the very nature of...

There is a misconception that the recent report in the United Kingdom reveals a cover-up by the UK government because they don't want to be called "bigots" or "Islamophobic." That's not true. They're been captured completely by the red-green alliance.

What's happening with Major League Baseball's latest scandal involving Bible verses on caps isn't just a cultural problem. It's not just political. It's not just faith-driven. It's a combination of all three and the solutions are very different.

Independent journalist Andy Ngo has perspectives on Antifa that are nearly spot on. There's one point he made recently that needs addressing. Then, Liam Out Loud defines why evil people exist and there's one point he made that also needs addressing.

The Newsom's are being investigated over strange finances surrounding Jennifer Newsom's non-profit and the state of California, for which Gavin Newsom is governor. Meanwhile, a candidate for US Congress in Utah is getting a whole lot of donations from out of state.

Between James Talarico, Graham Platner, and pretty much every Democrat candidate in California, the left is stuck with really bad options.

There is a particular species of Republican senator whose entire political identity depends on the illusion of principled independence. They vote with the party often enough to retain the label, but they reliably surface at precisely those moments when the conservative base has something real on the line. Early Thursday morning, four of them showed their faces again, and nobody should pretend to b...

Every two years, without fail, some pundit or politician solemnly declares that the upcoming midterm election is “the most important of our lifetime.” It has become a ritual — the political equivalent of a car alarm nobody looks up for anymore. The phrase has been so thoroughly cheapened by overuse that most voters now tune it out on instinct. That reflex is understandable. It is also, at this par...

When Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, the Islamic Republic lost the man who had held its contradictions together through sheer force of will for thirty-six years. What Iran gained in his place may be something stranger than a successor — it may be a symbol, a myth, or depending on how dark your reading of current events runs, something far m...