Gold’s rise and the new global arms race

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December 24, 2025

Gold’s rise and the new global arms race

News Items is a daily newsletter founded by longtime newsman John Ellis years ago. It is the “first read” for many because its 15-20 items cover the news waterfront and include links to the stories from dozens of news platforms as well as specialized journals. It’s a bracing bucket of cold water most mornings. Including […]

The spiritual physics of Christmas

Christmas offers a lesson in spiritual physics, one that Jesus built upon throughout his public ministry: To become great, one must become small. Jesus, whom Christians believe to be not merely a great religious figure but God incarnate, did not randomly enter into history as a peasant baby in the Judean Hill country. So great […]

The fringes got bigger in 2025

There have always been communists, fascists, conspiracy theorists, and kooks on the fringes of American politics. Social media has exposed the general public to these extreme views over the last two decades in a way that was unprecedented before the internet, but in 2025, the crazies on both sides took a massive step out of the basement […]

The DNC thinks it can build a left-wing Turning Point USA — it can’t

For years, political insiders assumed young voters would drift left. That assumption was turned on its head when Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA just one day after graduating high school in 2012. What began as a scrappy campus effort quickly evolved into a full-fledged political brand. Kirk’s signature approach — his “prove me wrong” […]

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