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Podcast: Talking politics and religion

Podcast: Talking politics and religion

On this episode of Village SquareCast, listeners are introduced to a leader in the saving democracy space. Corey Nathan, host of Talkin’ Politics and Religion without Killin’ Each Other, is committed to taking some airspace back from the screamers who feed off our divisions. He says politics and religion are too important to be left only to the extremes, so he hosts engaging, provocative and fun conversations about the most pressing issues of our times.


Talkin' Politics & Religion without Killin' Each Other - featuring Christine Todd Whitman

Talkin' Politics & Religion without Killin' Each Other - featuring Christine Todd Whitman

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

One of the two Palm Beach, Florida, homes that Donald Trump signed a mortgage for in the mid-1990s. The Mar-a-Lago tower appears behind the house.

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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

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U.S. President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. A bipartisan Congressional investigation has begun about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's role in ordering U.S. military strikes on small boats that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela, which Hegseth said are intended "to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.”

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President’s Use of Force in the Caribbean Is Another Test for Congress and the Constitutional System

Since president Trump returned to office, Congress has seemed either irrelevant or impotent. Republican majorities in the Senate and the House have acquiesced in the president’s desire to radically expand executive power.

Examples are legion. The Congress sat idly by while the administration dismantled agencies that the Congress created. It sat idly by while the administration refused to spend money it had appropriated. Congress didn’t do a thing when the president ignored laws it passed.

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People draped in an American flag and a Ukrainian flag.
People draped in an American flag and a Ukrainian flag join a march toward the United Nations.
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This isn’t just a local lesson. It’s a global one.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a cabinet meeting hosted by President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.

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You can’t hide from war crimes by calling them ‘fake news’

Since September of this year, the United States military has been blowing up boats allegedly trafficking drugs in the Caribbean.

Whether these attacks are legal is hotly debated. Congress hasn’t declared war or even authorized the use of force against “narco-terrorists” or against Venezuela, the apparent real target of a massive U.S. military build-up off its coast.

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