July 2026

Abdul El-Sayed notches a win for the left in the Michigan Senate primary—and in the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party.

Physician-assisted suicide is not harmless or selfless: it is a rejection of the inherent dignity of the elderly and the vulnerable.

The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.

The Democratic Party needs centrists capable of self-criticism and leftists capable of self-discipline. The current state of the discourse militates against both.

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, provocative art came to be leveraged for right-wing political power. We're still dealing with the consequences.

Pope Leo faces profound questions concerning women in the diaconate and in lay ministry. What can we expect?

In depicting a man who throws away a lifetime of platonic love for erotic desire, HBO's 'DTF: St Louis' becomes a paean for the worth of the former.

“Yesteryear,” this year’s breakout novel, promises insights into the antifeminist phenomenon, but it doesn’t deliver.

No one should be on the sidelines in the fight against hunger—especially when the GOP's fight against the hungry is being so ruthlessly waged.

The Vatican now views the SSPX as an external schismatic issue. What remains to be seen is how Leo will deal with the issue of internal radical traditionalism.