Hunter (J.D., Ph.D.) serves as senior fellow for First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He is the author of Postliberal Protestants: Baptists between Obergefell and Christian Nationalism, The End of Secularism, Political Thought: A Student's Guide, and The System Has a Soul. His work has appeared in a wide variety of other books and journals. He is a regular commentator on the popular podcast The World & Everything in It.
Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker on Abdul El-Sayed’s fleeting disavowal of Muslim Brotherhood connections—and how he turned the tables on his questioner. Also: Democratic Socialists’ demands, Sen. Slotkin’s dark warning, Trump vs. Vance on Netanyahu, disappearing Senate debates, and the Medicare for All fine print.
Washington Wednesday: Why should Americans accept economic pain over Ukraine but not Iran? Hunter Baker takes up the question.
On Washington Wednesday, Hunter Baker looks at the places where a free society can leave itself exposed. Also: Trump accounts and executive power, climate suits and federalism, and a lightning round on double-haters, permitting reform, and what happens when ideologues actually have to govern.
Five congressional races put the midterm map to the test, as Hunter Baker says the polls can’t be trusted the way they once were. Also: whether to keep bargaining as Iran loses leverage, and who controls money Congress has already appropriated.
Hunter Baker considers whether President Trump’s assertive use of U.S. power adds up to a governing principle, what Xi Jinping wants from Washington, and whether campaign money still moves voters.
Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker on why military pressure has not brought the Iran war to a quick end, whether AI regulation could wind up protecting market leaders from challengers, and whether U.S. pressure on Canada is pushing Ottawa closer to Europe. Plus: the cost of Texas, the child tax credit, and Missouri maps.
Hunter Baker | America cannot afford President Trump’s desperate tariff-rebate offer
WORLD’s Hunter Baker on the GOP’s midterm convention bet, an emerging Vance agenda, and how post-9/11 unity helped seed today’s political division.
WORLD’s Hunter Baker on upheaval in the Army as weapons stocks run thin, the strange politics dividing labor over the AI data-center boom, and why Social Security reform remains Washington’s untouchable problem. And the lightning round: Venezuela oil, birth tourism, and a White House ballroom that may get built faster than the courts can stop it.
Hunter Baker examines how Darline Graham’s family name and President Trump’s endorsement carried her through a divided South Carolina primary, why the fight over presidential power and mail voting remains unresolved, and what welfare reform got right 30 years ago.
