Article Looking Down from the High Ground Barack Obama’s memoir is written with admirable clarity and attention to detail, but is weighed down by its tone.By Paul BaumannJanuary 1, 2021 Barack Obama Nonfiction Domestic Affairs
Article Afghanistan Forever? If American men and women were being drafted to fight in Afghanistan, there is not the slightest possibility the war would have dragged on for eighteen years.By Paul BaumannDecember 18, 2019 War and Peace Foreign Affairs George W. Bush Barack Obama
Article David Brooks Is Wrong The pundit has accused Democrats of neglecting God, and moral concerns, in favor of strictly material policy proposals. That’s just not true.By Paul BaumannAugust 16, 2019 Spirituality Barack Obama Donald Trump Economy Election 2020
Article A World without the West To pretend that something called the West continues to play an organizing role in international politics is to indulge in a vast self-deceptionBy Andrew J. BacevichMarch 5, 2019 Asia Barack Obama George W. Bush Donald Trump Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article The Coming Populist Showdown Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocratsBy Sam Adler-BellMarch 4, 2019 Donald Trump Barack Obama Climate Change Domestic Affairs Immigration Social Justice Economy
Article Shrouded Figures A visit to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington occasions reflections not only on how we see, but who we think is worth seeingBy Paul BaumannFebruary 5, 2019 Arts Barack Obama Domestic Affairs Spirituality Death and Dying
Politics‘At Least Take the Bodies’ Russia’s refusal to repatriate its unburied dead underscores the inhumanity of the Putin regime.By Rita FerroneMay 4, 2022
ReligionWhen Timing Is Paramount If Roe is overturned, the USCCB must be ready to emphasize a culture of life that protects and empowers vulnerable women.By Peter SteinfelsMay 9, 2022
CultureCounter-Spells The intersection of the sacred and the profane in hip-hop reminds us of our common humanity.By Alejandro NavaMay 10, 2022
BooksHalf the Story John McWhorter spies a new religion. But his argument against “wokism” resists complexity and downplays the forces the woke aim to combat. By Clifford ThompsonMay 12, 2022
CollectionsThe Attack on Ukraine As the crisis in Ukraine continues, we’re featuring articles on the war and what could be to come for Ukrainians and the world as a whole.By The EditorsMarch 25, 2022
