Ian Ward

1 week ago | portside.org | Ian Ward

Christian Theocracy in Trump’s DC Published May 26, 2025 MOSCOW, Idaho — On a Sunday morning earlier this spring, Pastor Doug Wilson stood behind the pulpit at Christ Church to deliver his weekly sermon. His message for the congregation was clear and uncompromising.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Ian Ward

Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP. Doug Wilson in his library office at his home in Moscow, Idaho. | Photos by Rajah Bose for POLITICO Ian Ward is a reporter at POLITICO. MOSCOW, Idaho — On a Sunday morning earlier this spring, Pastor Doug Wilson stood behind the pulpit at Christ Church to deliver his weekly sermon.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ian Ward

MOSCOW, Idaho — On a Sunday morning earlier this spring, Pastor Doug Wilson stood behind the pulpit at Christ Church to deliver his weekly sermon. His message for the congregation was clear and uncompromising.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Ian Ward

“[It’s] not something that has an especially coherent logic to it or much prospect of actually accomplishing the things that I think people want,” Cass said. But despite his disappointment with the bill, Cass defended the notion that, in general, the GOP’s economic agenda is coming to reflect the interests of the party’s increasingly working-class base — even if that transformation is not happening as quickly as Cass would like on Capitol Hill.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ian Ward

The MAGA movement’s top economic guru is not happy about the GOP’s “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill passed by the House early Thursday. “I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making,” said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.