Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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Are pandemic relief checks making UBI inevitable?
opinion How even many conservatives are learning to love universal basic income
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What do we do about COVID vaccine refusal?
opinion Health-care workers refusing a COVID-19 shot is a troubling sign for the year to come
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Is Roger Stone the unlikely herald of a new religious right?
opinion Pardoned by Trump, the dirty trickster is on the hunt for a higher power
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What I'll tell my kids about 2020
feature How I'll try to summarize the bizarre 12 months in which they spoke their first words and took their first steps
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What would actually happen if Trump tried the 'martial law' idea?
opinion For one, his co-conspirators would likely end up in prison
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The omnibus oligarchy
opinion America's legislative process has turned into government by the few
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McConnell will make a stimulus deal to boost Senate Republicans — but not Trump?
opinion Why the Senate majority leader's first priority is always the Senate
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Call it the Trump vaccine if you must
opinion Just get it
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Republicans' hedonic treadmill problem
opinion The party's voters are hooked on the thrill of Trumpism
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My inescapable escape from the pandemic
feature As the virus is spiking, so is my need for house paints
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Trump gets a judicial reality check
opinion The president's election lawsuit failures should reassure Americans about the judiciary's independence
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Trump's coup d'emotion
opinion The president and his lackeys don't want power so much as the emotional gratification of winning
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Are Biden's 'first woman' picks more patronizing than progress?
opinion It's a fine line
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Trump's revealing pardon pattern
opinion How has Trump used the power? The same way he uses all power.
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The election was almost entirely peaceful. What happened?
opinion Did America dodge a bullet? Or were warnings of post-election violence always overblown?
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America forgot the seasonality of COVID-19 — until it was too late
opinion Winter is here
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Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead.
opinion The boomers forgot all their own warnings
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Trump is winding down his foreign policy the way it began: Incoherently
opinion There was never a Trump Doctrine
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American politics is fundamentally unserious about Christianity
opinion This week's controversies over Republican Madison Cawthorn and Democrat Raphael Warnock are instructive glimpses into how faith is weaponized
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The 1st big test of Biden's return to normalcy
opinion How Mitch McConnell approaches Cabinet appointments will tell us a lot about the next 2 years
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Donald Trump's future is a Prairie Home Companion
feature The president isn't going to be the next Tucker Carlson. He's going to be the next Garrison Keillor.
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Obama is asking the wrong question about American values
opinion Is there really such a thing as shared American values?
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How our views on the pandemic shape our takes on election fraud
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The alluring fantasy of Biden ending the imperial presidency
The Explainer The next president won't reform the presidency. Unless ...
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