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Getting There before Starbucks

Cubans want things Americans have, but they know the strength of their own culture, and of their dreams. Don’t expect images of Che Guevara to disappear soon.

'Toward Democracy'

'Toward Democracy' will inform anyone concerned about our democracy and its discontents. Not that just anyone will read it.
Photo by Lewis Hine, The Swimming Hole, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1916

The Lakes

We never admitted that the lake was terrifying, that it was a dark, alluring, fearful hole in the world, more grim than serene. We never said the word “drown."
CNS/Paul Haring

Letter from Rome

While in Poland for World Youth Day, Francis will be challenged to win over those Catholics who remain resistant to his program.

'The Right Wrong Man'

Lawrence Douglas’s immensely readable book absorbs the reader in the twists and turns of the legal saga of Ivan Demjanjuk, charged with Holocaust crimes.

Letters | Fan Mail

Long-time readers send kind words about the magazine, especially about Anthony Domestico's interview with C. E. Morgan.
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'Laurus'

'Laurus' is, among other things, an extended meditation on time in light of God’s eternal presence in the created world.

Poem | 'Floating on the Lehigh'

So I wouldn’t forget even one of the sins / from the Table in my prayer book, I wrote them down / and recited them from a notebook page
Emil Antonucci

Never Too Old to Feel Orphaned

It took my parents' deaths for me to understand fully the complete human beings they were. Does anything ever prepare us for the loss of our parents?
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Clinton's Convention vs. Trump's

Clinton has to cut through the politics of fear to persuade voters that she and her party still offer credible hope for the working class.

'Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore'

A straight-faced boyish humor and oblique Midwestern sentiment pervade these twenty short pieces by writer-slash-comedian-slash-rock-star Dave Hill.
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Trumpism's Ideological Wasteland

Trumpism is an ideological wasteland where anger is the only point and winning is the only objective. This GOP convention is what the wasteland looks like.
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Blood Narratives

August 9, 2016 | 19 comments

Little Red Chairs

August 7, 2016 | 2 comments

Waterboarding for Compassion

August 5, 2016 | 54 comments

A Catholic Time Warp Election

August 4, 2016 | 73 comments