Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.
Articles by Ben Johnson:
15 May 2025
4.2 MINS
After years of growing influence in schools and politics, LGBT advocacy giants GLSEN and HRC are now embarking on mass layoffs, citing financial pressures and declining corporate support under the new Trump administration.
14 May 2025
6.1 MINS
A major US health report reveals that transgender procedures failed adults — yet those same methods are now pushed onto vulnerable children.
6 May 2025
1.9 MINS
In a bold move on the National Day of Prayer, Trump signed an executive order creating the Religious Liberty Commission, tasked with protecting religious freedom, defending conscience rights, and confronting government discrimination against believers.
1 May 2025
8.3 MINS
President Trump’s second administration has wasted no time: in just 100 days, he’s reversed radical policies on abortion and gender, protected religious freedom, secured the border, and put national sovereignty back on the agenda.
7 April 2025
4.4 MINS
Perhaps no words in recent political history have so rapidly proven correct as Vice President J.D. Vance’s warning that European religious liberty faces a toxic and growing “threat from within”, according to a new expert analysis of government infringements on Christians.
11 March 2025
5.5 MINS
Two new studies show that the West’s growing epidemic of childlessness and depopulation will cost the U.S. alone “quadrillions of dollars”. Western nations must heed the dire warnings of this existential economic crisis.
10 March 2025
9.6 MINS
President Trump told American children, “you are perfect exactly the way God made you”, during last week's address to Congress. He also reiterated his stance on removing males from female sports and vowed to lead the USA back to "the righteous cause of American liberty" "with God's help".
5 March 2025
6.8 MINS
The Trump administration promptly ordered the firing of roughly 100 federal employees whom whistleblowers exposed for turning the nation’s intelligence agencies into “a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology”, creating “a counterintelligence risk” that is “going to get people killed in the field.”
14 February 2025
7 MINS
Trump has defied political correctness to address a major human rights abuse, sanctioning South Africa over land expropriation, racial discrimination, and Afrikaner persecution.
23 January 2025
3.8 MINS
The more often Americans attend virtually any Christian denomination, as well as Jewish services, the more likely they are to adopt conservative political views, according to a recent statistical analysis. “The more Democrats go to church, the more they look like Republicans,” states the study.
6 January 2025
18 MINS
The legacy media impose their worldview by ignoring stories that do not fit the narrative they wish viewers to adopt. From investigations that never occur to scandals never exposed, here are the 10 most underreported stories of 2024.
31 December 2024
4.4 MINS
During its four years in office, the Biden-Harris administration conducted a whole-of-government attempt to surveil, censor, and possibly imprison conservative Christians — and the FBI acted as “a witting participant” in their harassment campaign, a massive new government report details.
31 December 2024
3.3 MINS
No one is more politically engaged than atheists, a recent study found.
30 December 2024
3.3 MINS
People of vibrant faith contrast sharply with non-Christians, who give an average of zero dollars to charity causes each year, the study found.
4 December 2024
11.4 MINS
After repeatedly insisting he would never do so, President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for any and all crimes he committed over the last decade and disdained his son’s prosecution as “a miscarriage of justice.”
26 November 2024
4.7 MINS
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plans to protect taxpayers from wasteful spending will take a scalpel to Planned Parenthood funding, reasserting Americans’ financial autonomy by removing federal funds from the nation’s largest abortion chain.
11 November 2024
3.9 MINS
In her concession speech, Kamala Harris claims her “loyalty to our conscience and to our God” and belief in “the dignity of all people” will drive her to continue fighting for abortion.
5 November 2024
4.9 MINS
Donald Trump briefly took the role of garbage collector, in response to vitriolic comments from President Joe Biden calling Trump’s supporters “garbage” and apparently threatening to drown the 45th president.
11 October 2024
3.4 MINS
The threat of global advisory bodies taking on greater authority is that they provide cover for homegrown despots to crack down on their citizens under the cover of U.N. directives.
1 August 2024
5.1 MINS
By this time, many Americans may have heard that the 2024 Republican Party platform differs significantly from all its previous platforms, but they may not understand the specific changes that have been made on the issues of life, marriage, family, and religious liberty.