Biblical rhetoric in American life has helped sustain a pluralistic moral vision, writes a scholar specializing in the influence of Jewish ideas on American history.

As the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV publicly sparred over the Iran war, social media users claimed that both the pontiff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited fictional Bible verses to ...

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth mistakenly presented the made-up scripture as genuine Bible verse - and he's being trolled ...

Hegseth's Old Testament warmongering ignores Christ's replacement of "eye for an eye" with the Golden Rule and turning the ...

Hegseth said the lead mission planner for an Iran war rescue operation delivered the prayer to him and told him they use it ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put the "script" in "scripture" when he quoted a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino's ...

The bill does not outlaw Bible quotes, and as of early April 2026, it had not yet become law.

Donald Trump tried to invoke the Bible when announcing his foster-care executive order. Paraphrasing the scripture, the president, like always, gave the world more political theater, and his latest ...

Upon encountering Charlie Kirk, my initial reaction was that he was in danger of being harmed. In retrospect, this may seem like an obvious observation. However, within a mere 30 seconds, I witnessed ...

A prominent political figure now invokes the familiar words from Ecclesiastes — “a time for every purpose under heaven” — as ...