Electric Chrysler Pacifica Is Coming To Change The Minivan World Chrysler’s next minivan is going to be electric, and we now know that it’s going to be called the Pacifica. This is huge news if you’re minivan and Pacifica-pilled like I am. The news was confirmed to Green Car Reports at the LA Auto Show late last week. Read more…

High-Tech Truck Heist Makes Off With $1 Million Of Guy Fieri And Sammy Hagar Tequila Back in the good ol’ days of truck heists, you could get your four best friends together in three matching Honda Civics and steal yourself a truck full of all the DVD players your heart desires. In modern times, however, things are more complicated: You’ll need some high-tech GPS-spoofing equipment if you want to make… Read more…

Watch These Yahoos Road Trip An Old Volkswagen To Texas For A Joke Sometimes the fun of cars is found in doing dumb things with your friends. It’s not against the law to decorate your MkIV Volkswagen R32 like Burt Reynolds’ 1978 Trans Am from the film “Smokey And The Bandit,” then road tripping it to Texarkana, Texas. Nobody can stop you if that’s something you want to do, which is… Read more…

International Forklift Racing Competition Ends In Belgian Upset Over Germany The Germans love them some forklift racing, and why wouldn’t they? Forklifts are awesome. Racing is awesome. There’s no way it wouldn’t be awesome if you combine the two. This year’s competition was different, though. The Stapler Cup, named after the German word for forklift, dropped “German” from the name and… Read more…

Cadillac Will Be The First American Factory Constructor In F1 History It’ll be a battle for the ages when Ford and General Motors face off on the Formula 1 grid in 2026. Ford will be working with Red Bull Powertrains to build engines from that point forward, while Cadillac will partner with Andretti Global to enter a Ferrari-powered car as the 11th team. Sorry Europe, you had your time… Read more…

HOA Tows Cars With Expired Tags Out Of Private Driveways We all know HOAs suck, but as with all things that suck, Florida HOAs are on another level. An HOA in Florida contracted with a tow company to tow vehicles with expired registration out of people’s driveways and, predictably, this is pissing people off. Read more…

Teacher in a Strange Land: Nine Reasons Why Standardized Tests and Grades Shouldn’t Necessarily Match Up Teacher in a Strange Land: Nine Reasons Why Standardized Tests and Grades Shouldn’t Necessarily Match Up Headline from a recent piece in Education Week: Grades and Standardized Test Scores Aren’t Matching Up. Here’s Why. Let me give you the gist: Grades are unreliable, whereas standardized test scores scientifically measure real co…

Antisemitism: Canary in the Coal Mine to Destroying Democracy With Rabbi Jill Jacobs The State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’Ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. The post Antisemitism: Canary in the Coal Mine to Destroying Democracy With Rabbi Jill Jacobs appeared first on RNS.

Embarrassing Cars, Worst Mechanic Stories And Rebrands In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Stellantis’ current situation isn’t great. From production stoppages to big changes for new vehicle intros and potentially selling off brands in the portfolio, it seems like the automaker’s management is scrambling to figure things out. As the company’s management doesn’t seem to know what to do, we asked our readers… Read more…

Eerily Familiar Space Shuttles And Vigilante Street Signs In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” and the latest example of that comes from the space race. China unveiled a new space shuttle last week to keep the Tiangong station supplied as the nation expands its space… Read more…

Totaled Cybertruck And A Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet With A Working Top In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup When the Tesla Cybertruck first launched, its earliest Foundation Series models cost $120,000. This didn’t stop Tesla loyalists from spending up to nearly double that to get their hands on one, and resale values have shown the folly of that approach: Cybertruck values are dropping far and dropping fast. – Amber… Read more…

‘Keep Moving’ Signs And The New Hyundai Ioniq 9 In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Jake Paul’s boxing match against Mike Tyson was an absolute snoozer, verging on a complete farce, but there was one highlight: how the former Vine and Disney star turned “professional” boxer” made his entrance. He did it in the back seat of a purple-over-lime-green Chevy C3500 dually with Phil Collins’ “In The Air… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel Gets Stained All To Hell In This Week’s News Roundup After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more…

For avid readers of Yiddish news, print is still king (RNS) — Technological advances as well as changing social attitudes have sparked a cultural renaissance among Hasidic Jewish communities, for whom Yiddish is the native tongue.  The post For avid readers of Yiddish news, print is still king appeared first on RNS.

‘Sanctuary People’ follows faith-based organizing in the first Trump term In ‘Sanctuary People,’ Pérez takes a hopeful look at how the sanctuary movement has broadened to include not only offering shelter to migrants, but help for victims of hurricanes and police violence. The post ‘Sanctuary People’ follows faith-based organizing in the first Trump term appeared first on RNS.

Photos of the Week: U.S. Teenage Buddhist Lama; Taiwan Temple Festival (RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes a U.S. teenage Buddhist lama enthronement, a Taoist temple festival in Taiwan and more. The post Photos of the Week: U.S. Teenage Buddhist Lama; Taiwan Temple Festival appeared first on RNS.

On women deacons, the Catholic Church has to remember its own history (RNS) — The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons. The post On women deacons, the Catholic Church has to remember its own history appeared first on RNS.

IJCIC repudiates charge of Israeli genocide International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations The post IJCIC repudiates charge of Israeli genocide appeared first on RNS.

Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived (The Conversation) — The 13th-century theologian’s influences included Greek, Muslim and Jewish thinkers. The post Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived appeared first on RNS.

Christians mobilize to pray for all the persecuted (RNS) — Those facing persecution need Christians to speak up, working across faith and theological lines for those living in danger everywhere. The post Christians mobilize to pray for all the persecuted appeared first on RNS.