American Christianity has been captured by Trumpism over the past decade. How can we recover from his politics of resentment?

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.

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An American Pope on American Freedom

Accepting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, Pope Leo explored the relationship between political freedom and care for the vulnerable.

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The Declaration's Critique of Cruelty

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Obama's American Vision

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After the Black Church

Aaron Robertson

Patriotism for Adults

Dominic Preziosi

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

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In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.

Aaron Robertson

Book Tour or Campaign Stump?

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When J. D. Vance discusses his faith journey, he is careful not to offend any constituencies he may need in a presidential run.

Heidi Schlumpf

Automated Barbarism

International Politics Editorial

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.

The Editors

Following the Football

Sports Travel

This year's World Cup might be the least accessible in history but, somehow, fans are enjoying it anyway.

Milo Priddle

You Could Do Worse

Movies Culture

Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ feels insubstantial and surprisingly slight. It's still better than most of what moviegoers are being offered these days.

Robert Rubsam

A Missing Dimension

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When Greg Grandin reduces Gustavo Gutiérrez and Pope Benedict XVI to political figures, he neglects what's most important about their work.

Paul Baumann

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Farewell Higher Education

The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.

Kenneth L. Woodward

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