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A New Opening for Democrats

The rightward shift of the GOP, along with its increasingly Pro-Trump ideology, could cost the partly dearly in the November elections

August 16, 2018

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Exploiting the New Tribalism

Expanding the definition of “public charge” continues a pattern in which anti-immigrant measures are advanced for political advantage

By Paul Moses

August 15, 2018

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Religion Booknotes

The latest installment in a series of reviews on new titles in religion, the Exodus, and Martin Luther

By Luke Timothy Johnson

August 15, 2018

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August 10, 2018

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The College-Admissions Frenzy

Is there anyone who thinks that the American system of higher education, and specifically admission to it, is rational or fair?

By Rand Richards Cooper

August 14, 2018

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An Appropriate Comparison?

There is a reluctance to draw lessons from the Nazi experience, but suddenly the “whole thing” looks all too close and familiar

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

August 9, 2018

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Is Transparency a Cure-All?

The McCarrick scandal calls into question both the personal holiness of the clergy and the inadequacy of the church’s current structures

August 8, 2018

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The Idolatry of Home

A new book by Roger Scruton casts Brexit as a debate over two different conceptions of home

By Paul J. Griffiths

August 7, 2018

Religion

‘What Francis Did Is Just Huge’

Sr. Helen Prejean talks about the pope’s action on capital punishment, the politics of the death penalty, and how Twitter can be used to build spiritual sustenance

By John Gehring

August 7, 2018

Culture

Under Pressure

A new book on how social and economic institutions have shaped millennials poses questions for churches that wish to build a more humane way of living together

By John Thornton Jr.

August 1, 2018

Books

A Choreography of Praise

A profile of the major Irish poet, whose dancing lines sing the joy and jazz of creation

By Anthony Domestico

August 6, 2018

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An Unhealed Wound

From our archives, highlights of a half-century's worth of writing on ‘Humanae Vitae’

By The Editors

June 5, 2018

Re-Reading ‘Laudato si’ ’

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