Steven Bonta is Executive Senior Editor at The New American magazine. He has been a contributor to The New American since the 1990s, and has contributed hundreds of print and online articles over that time. He holds an MA in linguistics from Brigham Young University and a PhD from Cornell, also in linguistics. For many years, he taught linguistics, English, and Spanish at Cornell and Penn State University, and has also taught online with Grand Canyon University. More recently, he has taught high school in Arizona and China. He has lived in several countries, including Argentina, India, Sri Lanka, and China, and speaks a number of foreign languages, such as Spanish, French, and Chinese.
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Posts by Steve Bonta
Pat Boone on God and Country
Legendary singer, writer, actor, and motivational speaker Pat Boone joins us to discuss his remarkable career and his new hit single, “Where Did America Go?” Also in this episode: ...
DNC Derangement
On Day One of the Democratic National Convention, the freak show was on full display, from disruptive anti-Israel street protests to transports of TDS among the featured speakers. Hillary...
DNC Launches Alongside Biden Impeachment Report
The Democratic Party launches its long-awaited convention in Chicago today, in which the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket will be confirmed without a single vote from Democratic primary voters. Will...
Kamala, Trump agree to debate as Walz “stolen valor” controversy swirls
An already surreal presidential campaign gets stranger as Trump announces three debates at yesterday’s presser at Mar-a-Lago—even as Kamala continues to duck the media. Meanwhile, unwelcome publicity about Tim...
The Harris-Walz Traveling Circus: Hip or Hype?
The new Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket is taking Middle America by a storm, according to pollsters and press accounts. But how much of it is overhyped astroturfing and response...
Who Is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris is now her party’s presumptive presidential nominee, and there’s no question she’s the favorite of the leftist and globalist establishment. ...
Economy on Recession Watch After Unemployment, Jobs Data Crater in July
This morning’s July jobs report produced some very bad news for Bidenomics boosters, and even triggered an official recession warning. Markets have swooned in response. This newest economic data...
Trump Dealt the Race Card: Was Kamala a DEI hire?
Under hostile questioning at a conference of black journalists, Trump questioned Kamala’s race credentials, and the anti-Trump press are having a field day. We take a look at the...
Israeli Assassinations Escalate Middle East Tensions
The Israeli military carried out two high-profile assassinations within hours of each other in two separate regional capitals. ...
U.S. Debt Hits $35 Trillion
While people were focused on politics, yesterday the official national debt surpassed $35 trillion for the first time, very much on schedule. ...
Left Claims Kamala Harris Was Not Border Czar. Seriously.
The legacy media are suddenly insisting, loudly and unanimously, that Kamala Harris was never a “Border Czar,” and that such an office does not exist. We puncture this latest...
A Day We Will Never Forget
July 13, 2024, was a day none of us will ever forget. On that day, at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, what many of us had been expecting...
The John Birch Society: Standing in the Gap
One thing almost everyone agrees on is the acute state of crisis in America in 2024. Domestically, the economy continues to wallow in a muck of stubbornly high inflation...
Wounded Trump wows RNC
Trump’s lengthy acceptance speech last night gave us some idea of what a second Trump Administration would look like. We discuss the new Trump/MAGA agenda. Also in the news,...
Biden’s “Big Boy” News Conference Another Bust
Biden’s press conference last night was the usual farrago of gaffes and senior moments. Also in this episode: NATO tries to rekindle the Cold War flame, and a roundup...