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Bonnie Kristian

Former acting editor-in-chief, TheWeek.com

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.

An exit.

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Feature

A farewell to The Week that was

President Biden.

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Bonnie Kristian

The risk in a Biden reversal of medical conscience protections

Ron DeSantis.

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Bonnie Kristian

Hey Florida! We need to see the math books.

A tin foil hat army.

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Why the person behind Libs of TikTok doesn't matter

A Murkowski sign.

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Bonnie Kristian

Election reform that might actually work

People.

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Opinion

The growing necessity of ownership

Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Opinion

Why KBJ's high school still matters

A hawk and bombs.

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Bonnie Kristian

Even hawks are afraid of nukes

A head full of headlines.

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Bonnie Kristian

Standing 'sentinel' on social media won't fix Ukraine

A woman wearing a mask.

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Opinion

The risks of the 3rd COVID year

Vaccination.

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Opinion

Vaccine mandate blowback?

A COVID test.

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Bonnie Kristian

Minneapolis' absurd new target in the COVID fight

A woman walking.

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Bonnie Kristian

How vaccinated America has split over COVID

Republicans.

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Opinion

2 decades of right turns

Tesla CEO Elon Musk

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Business briefing

The daily business briefing: December 29, 2021

Harry Reid, pictured in 2016

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: December 29, 2021

President Biden.

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Bonnie Kristian

Dangerously casual about war?

A Meta guy.

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Bonnie Kristian

Stop pretending the metaverse is impressive

Rescuers at coal mine.

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tragedy

Siberian coal mine explosion kills dozens

Parenting.

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Parenting advice

The week's best parenting advice: November 9, 2021

The Supreme Court.

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Bonnie Kristian

The policing problem SCOTUS could fix — but won't

George W. Bush.

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Bonnie Kristian

Time to repeal the Patriot Act?

A radical baby.

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Opinion

Against political kids books

Vaccination.

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Bonnie Kristian

Should the CDC hide unverified vaccine data?

A gardener.

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Opinion

The soil of fairy tales

The Sixth Sense.

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Opinion

Spoilers are good

Afghanistan.

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Bonnie Kristian

A hint the Afghanistan war isn't really over

Tucker Carlson.

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Bonnie Kristian

Tucker Carlson wants an IRS targeting scandal of his own

Syringes.

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Analysis

Justice, judgment, and the last ICU bed

Brown and Bob Jones logos.

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Bonnie Kristian

When the Ivy League acts like Bob Jones University

Kids wearing masks.

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Parenting advice

The week's best parenting advice: August 25, 2021

COVID.

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Bonnie Kristian

How the pandemic ends

A helicopter.

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Bonnie Kristian

America's 3 big 'what ifs' in Afghanistan

Free-range kids.

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Parenting advice

The week's best parenting advice: August 19, 2021

Internet rip current.

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Feature

How to swim sideways on social media

Dying for religion.

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Opinion

What the West didn't get about the Taliban