Mark W. Hendrickson

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Recently, former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden publicly shared his vision for the U.S. Supreme Court. First, he said...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” That was the punchline of democratic socialist Rep....

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Time is one of the most fascinating and impactful aspects of our human experience. Calendars and clocks can be little dictators....

MARK W. HENDRICKSON, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM During the week before Christmas, Congress rushed a spending bill into law. Two spending bills were introduced that Monday,...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Among the many radical economic plans offered by various Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed an...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Disagreements often lead to insults. When I was a kid, when one of us thought another was “all wet” (wrong), the...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Heated rhetoric and politics go hand in hand. In today’s hyper-politicized polity, the line between heated and hate-filled rhetoric is crossed often. This isn’t...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”—Ronald Reagan “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Poverty in the sense of acute deprivation is largely nonexistent in the United States in the 21st century In a previous column, I...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Poverty is one of the oldest problems in the world. For much of history, it was intractable and grimly inevitable. Today,...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Regardless of how you feel about immigrants entering our country across the southern border at the Rio Grande River—whether you wish...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Editor's note: Current status of Senate Bill 2043 as of August 23, 2019: Read twice and referred to the Committee on...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” This disturbing prediction (by no means...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The “hook” of the story intrigued me: “This hasn’t happened in all of modern history…” An email from “The Crux” last...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON This will sound like the start of a bad joke, but please bear with me: What do Everett Dirksen, Otto von...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Recently, I wrote an article about the removal of Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” from two famous American sports venues on...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON David Brooks of The New York Times has now jumped on the bandwagon, writing “The Case for Reparations.” The idea of paying...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Mark Trumbull, Staff Reporter The Christian Science Monitor Boston, MA 02115 Dear Mr. Trumbull, Last month, in your introductory remarks to The Christian Science Monitor...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Earlier in March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment to H.R. 1—the Democrats’ ambitious attempt to “expand Americans’ access to the ballot...

It's the enviro-fascists versus free speech and science BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I wrote in my previous column that environmentalists are exploiting the climate-change issue to promote an...