It’s Tuesday, March 3, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)

By Kevin Swanson, Timothy Reed and Adam McManus

Taliban back in control in Afghanistan

After 20 years of U.S. conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban is back in control.

Here’s the latest. The Associated Press reports that the new Afghan penal code allows husbands to beat their wives, criminalizes criticism of the nation’s leadership, and bans education for women beyond primary school.

And the Afghan-Pakistani War is heating up.

According to recent numbers from Afghan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, 415 soldiers with the Taliban have died and 580 have been injured.

Republicans support and Democrats oppose Iranian attack Here in the United States, there’s a sharp partisan divide with Americans concerning the latest war with Iran.

An Ipsos/Reuters survey finds that 55% of Republican voters are in favor of the U.S. attack on Iran. Only 13% opposed it. And 7% of Democrats support the attack while 74% oppose.

Thus far, as of Monday — the casualties racking up in the war include 555 Iranian deaths, 31 Lebanese deaths, 10 Israeli deaths, and 4 American deaths.

Time on Doomsday Clock

Ever heard of The Doomsday Clock?

Sponsored by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder, of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.

As of January 2026, the Doomsday Clock was moved to T-minus 85 seconds. That’s down from 17 minutes in 1992, and 5 minutes in 2012.

China, Russia, and France’s place in the nuclear arms race

Recent estimates put China’s spending on its nuclear arsenal at $12.5 to $14 billion for 2024 and 2025. The communist country is outspending every nation except the United States.

News reports point to Russia’s development of a nuclear weapon to be detonated in space.

And, just yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to increase the size of the French nuclear arsenal, as the second nuclear arms race progresses. Psalm 46:8-9 instructs us to “Come, behold the works of the Lord, Who has made desolations in the Earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the Earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire.”

Evidence that a Mexican cartel bribed Mexican politicians

Mexico’s El Universal newspaper carried pictures of the ledgers found in the cabin of the late drug lord Nemesio Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”

The ledgers included references to Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office as well as members of military and state agencies.

Mexican journalists have explained that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has bankrolled political campaigns of Mexico’s ruling party members in the National Regeneration Movement in exchange for relative immunity, reports Breitbart.

War Secretary Hegseth ends cooperation with woke Ivy League schools

As The Worldview reported last month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cut ties between Harvard and the Pentagon, discontinuing military-sponsored and funding of graduate-level education programs.

Now, the War Department has announced no more cooperation with the rest of Ivy League schools.

Secretary Hegseth explained the reason for this.

HEGSETH: “Our senior service colleges have always been expected to act in the interest of this principle, to transform our senior war fighters into strategic thinkers, capable of mastering the complexities of modern warfare, and leading our joint force to victory at every echelon. Unfortunately, this sacred trust has been broken in this military's professional military education system.

“For decades, the Ivy League, and similar institutions, have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American taxpayer dollars, only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain. They've taken our best and brightest, the men and women who pledged their lives to this nation, and subjected them to a curriculum of contempt.

“They've replaced the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of ‘wokeness’ and weakness, they've traded true intellectual rigor for radical dogma, sacrificing free expression for the suffocating confines of leftist ideology.”

As of last week, the Pentagon has also reached an agreement with Scouting America (including the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts), to move away from what they call “diversity initiatives” and woke policies.

Trust in U.S. government at 17%

Among Americans, trust in the federal government has hit its lowest levels in seven decades — now at 17%.

That’s down from 77% in 1964, according to Pew Research’s latest numbers. Oregon Democrats block bill to protect babies who survive abortions

Oregon Democrats blocked a bill that would have given babies a chance to survive after a failed abortion.

House Bill 4087, or the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, mandated that infants who survived a botched abortion be afforded the “same degree of professional skill, care and diligence … that a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”

Oregon Right To Life Executive Director Lois Anderson laid out the inhumanity of the state’s abortion law.

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