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The End of Title 42

Title 42 is lifted. But its replacement still severely limits migrants' ability to seek asylum.

June 1, 2023

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Should Feinstein Step Down?

How does the public benefit when its representatives show obvious signs of not being up to the job?

By Dominic Preziosi

May 25, 2023

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Has College Crushed the American Dream?

Will Bunch's new book analyzes the role of higher education in perpetuating the political divides in the United States.

May 24, 2023

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June 2023

How Hospitals Could Be

Is single-payer health care really feasible in America? For Texas physician Ricardo Nuila, the answer is an unqualified ‘yes.’

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Spirituality

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The Poetry of Reality

In a revelatory Gwendolyn Brooks poem, God is actual: so woven into reality that the question of God’s own reality can’t meaningfully occur.

May 23, 2023

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In Praise of the Pitch Clock

MLB’s new pitch clock highlights the deep patterns and contemplative rhythms of the sport. It has brought baseball back to itself.

May 21, 2023

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Duke Ellington’s Sacred Swing

The music of Duke Ellington weaves together religious sensibilities with the sensibilities of this world. It elevates spirit, mind, and body.

May 20, 2023

Must Reads

Politics

Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

Religion

St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

By John Rodden

May 26, 2023

Culture

Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

By Jennifer Banks

May 26, 2023