Economy

Public Education in Crisis

What do billionaires like Betsy DeVos know about running schools? Absolutely nothing, argues public education expert Diane Ravitch. That’s why we need to join the resistance: parents, teachers’ unions, and progressive politicians fighting to save the public sphere.

Domestic Affairs

Article

The Irony of Opioids

The Sackler family is profiting by treating addictions to their own drugs—a darkly ironic indication of the extent of corporate greed and individual powerlessness.

By Katherine Lucky

January 30, 2020

Domestic Affairs

Article

No Longer Peripheral

Forget what Donald Trump says. For the past fifty years, it’s U.S. Latinos who have made American cities great.

By César J. Baldelomar

January 30, 2020

Domestic Affairs

Article

Densification & Displacement

Despite bipartisan support in Washington, affordable housing remains a thorny political issue: rezoning requires relinquishing local control over land use laws.

By Paul Moses & Michael Connor

January 29, 2020

Domestic Affairs

Article

Strange Gods

The faith we place in markets and the sacrifices we offer on the altar of capitalism make all modern consumers part of an idolatrous system.

By William T. Cavanaugh

January 21, 2020

Secularism and Modernity

God & Mammon

Does capitalism make us bad Christians? Eugene McCarraher thinks so. His new book, The Enchantments of Mammon, explains how money came to replace God in the modern era, seducing us with false promises of profit maximization.

Must Reads

Politics

Reading Buttigieg

I have known Buttigieg since I taught him at Harvard. One question animated him: how could Americans unite politically when their culture was increasingly polarized?

By James T. Kloppenberg

February 18, 2020

Religion

Strange Gods

The faith we place in markets and the sacrifices we offer on the altar of capitalism make all modern consumers part of an idolatrous system.

By William T. Cavanaugh

January 21, 2020

Culture

Giving Doctors a Say

Giving medical professionals some agency in end-of-life decisions can be consistent with church teaching. We just need to integrate the concept of futility.

By Michael Redinger

February 24, 2020

Books

The Poetry of Sam Menashe

The short poems of Samuel Menashe are unique: self-contained epigrams, charms, wishes, prayers, descriptive one-shots, shapely units of quotable wisdom.

By Stephanie Burt

February 5, 2020

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

October 28, 2019

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