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The Wound That Does Not Heal
In Genesis 32:23–33, Jacob wrestles through the night with a figure Scripture describes as both man and God. The encounter ends without clean resolution: Jacob walks away with a...
How Commercial Surrogacy Targets Military Families
Military wives constitute less than 1 percent of the American population, and they make up between 15 and 20 percent of the women paid to gestate other people’s children....
The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic
Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate mass shootings within a single week. Both exhibited documented histories of serious...
