Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.
Articles by Ben Johnson:
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.
15 July 2024
5.6 MINS
Nearly all House Democrats voted against a “generation-defining” election security bill that would certify only U.S. citizens to register to vote in national elections — a bill President Joe Biden has promised to veto.
7 June 2024
6.3 MINS
We can only understand the Trump conviction by taking stock of the overt spiritual warfare that has been waged against him since the beginning of his presidency. The catalogue is a long one.
6 June 2024
4.4 MINS
Hundreds of officials from dozens of countries have put the leader of the WHO on notice that if he persists in violating WHO rules to adopt a controversial global pandemic agreement or amend the International Health Regulations (IHR), it will render those provisions “null and void.”
3 June 2024
5.2 MINS
Trump promised to shred and annul the WHO Pandemic Agreement unless Joe Biden submits the document to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
21 May 2024
7.6 MINS
Both Biden and Kennedy have staked out a position at odds with the majority of Americans. Polls have shown for decades that the vast majority of Americans oppose late-term abortion.
7 May 2024
10 MINS
Tens of thousands of events took place around the United States to mark the 73rd annual National Day of Prayer, as Christians of every background folded their hands, closed their eyes, and raised their voices to Heaven in unison.
1 May 2024
5.3 MINS
At a recent pro-abortion event, President Joe Biden controversially made the sign of the Cross, invoking spiritual symbols while attacking pro-life measures.
15 April 2024
9.6 MINS
Trump's abortion statement last week prompted mixed reactions from pro-life leaders, who are calling for pro-life policies at every level of government in post-Roe America.
11 April 2024
4.3 MINS
The research, which tracked almost 3,000 adolescents, found that most who identified as transgender eventually embraced their biological sex.