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After the Black Church
"I wanted to understand how people like me—those who grew up in the Black church and later found themselves outside of it—were channeling the impulse to believe."
‘You Are America’
The Obama Center is surely a monument to one man’s leadership—but it also issues a call to every American to do their part in making the country a better place.

Rising Above the Slop

The United States, on its 250th birthday, is a country in decline. American Catholics should embrace this sour semiquincentennial as a moment for discernment.
Max Foley-Keene
Dots on a Map
In the third and final episode of “The City and the Cross,” host and inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson reckons with what was truly lost in Detroit’s 1989 parish closures and asks whether the Catholic Church is any more committed to its Black congregants today. 
The City and the Cross
podcastU.S. Catholicism
In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit. 
Book Tour or Campaign Stump?
U.S. CatholicismDonald TrumpPoliticsPope Leo XIV
When J. D. Vance discusses his faith journey, he is careful not to offend any constituencies he may need in a presidential run.
Automated Barbarism
InternationalPoliticsEditorial
Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.
Following the Football
SportsTravel
This year's World Cup might be the least accessible in history but, somehow, fans are enjoying it anyway.
You Could Do Worse
MoviesCulture
Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ feels insubstantial and surprisingly slight. It's still better than most of what moviegoers are being offered these days.
A Missing Dimension
Pope Leo XIVTheologyLatin AmericaPope Benedict XVI
When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.
Beyond Couch and Clinic
FarewellHigher Education
The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.
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America 250

Fatiguing Us into Compliance
Rising Above the Slop
‘You Are America’
Patriotism for Adults

Election 2026

Changing the Calculus of Power
Can Women Deliver a Blue Wave?
James Talarico's Call to Kindness

Magnifica Humanitas

Reading 'Magnifica Humanitas'
Flourishing Through Limits
Us vs. the Robots
Art and AI

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