Election 2016

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Trump Wins. Now What Do I Tell My Kids?

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

November 9, 2016

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Election 2016

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Humility Would Have Helped

Humility for journalists means knowing when we don’t know. Empathy requires seeing the world through many lenses. Those basic journalistic values got lost in 2016.

By Paul Moses

December 8, 2016

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Trump Nation—and Not

My gnawing question about Trump voters, especially the dispossessed white working-class ones: Did they vote for Trump because he was Trump, or despite it?

December 7, 2016

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Reflections on the New Regime

After the spectacle of 2016, it is well to remember that popular agitation, exaggerated expectations, and deep divisions have long been part of the nation’s history.

November 29, 2016

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A Wakeup Call for Catholic Bishops

Church leaders need to wake up and recognize the need for a prophetic Christian witness in response to Donald Trump's presidency. If not now, when?

November 22, 2016

Muslim-Christian Relations

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In the Beginning Was the Word

That speech itself took a beating in the 2016 election is troubling. But Clinton and Trump were not singularly to blame: Both candidates embodied longer-term trends.

By Susan McWilliams Barndt

December 6, 2016

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Domestic Affairs

Retired U.S. Army lieutenant general Michael Flynn at a campaign rally for Donald Trump/ Gage Skidmore - Wikimedia

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American Junta

That the senior ranks of the incoming Trump administration have taken on a military hue is both logical and deeply troubling. It should give Americans pause.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

December 18, 2016

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Catholics & the Conversation on Race

What story will historians tell about race in a post-Obama era? And will Catholics play a role in drafting the next chapter?

December 13, 2016

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Populist, Nativist, Isolationist

Vibrant suspicion of government is the bedrock of democracy and our robust civil society. But it also means we’re unsure of what to do with our our own government.

November 22, 2016

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Not the Time for Reconciliation

Willing the good to everyone doesn't mean we ought to contrive a cheap reconciliation that ignores the danger presented by Donald Trump to our society and the world.

November 21, 2016

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Backlash

What might be more important about Trump's election is that the phenomenon seems part of a broader “populist” movement sweeping through most advanced countries.

December 19, 2016

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Liberal Democracy Endangered

Donald Trump's cavalier and arrogant response to the CIA's finding that Russia actively intervened in our election only deepens our fears about his win.

December 12, 2016

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The Unpopular Populist

It is not unreasonable to fear that Trump will govern as he campaigned—as an authoritarian, a threat to the rule of law, an agent of disorder on the world stage.

By The Editors

November 15, 2016

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The Failure of American Liberalism

Democrats may see themselves as heirs to the progressive tradition dating to FDR. But that does not describe the party that made Hillary Clinton its nominee.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

November 15, 2016

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Against Trumpian Triumphalism

It's not true that the political coalition that elected Barack Obama died on November 8. That alliance maintained its national advantage, as the popular vote shows.

November 14, 2016