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Feature Shades of Suffering To fully grasp the extent of Goya’s achievements, one must consider his drawings and prints. By Alejandro Anreus April 8, 2021 Arts
Article Minds Without Brains? AI has not yet lived up to its hype, but there is already cause for concern about its influence. By John W. Farrell April 5, 2021 Secularism and Modernity Philosophy
Article What We’ve Been Missing This year has taught us in an unprecedented way what it means to hope for resurrection. By Roberto J. De La Noval April 3, 2021 Lent Spirituality Coronavirus
Article ‘A Providentialism Without God’ Three new books interrogate America’s most cherished illusion. By Eugene McCarraher March 29, 2021 Education
Article Against Lying How can we make our Church a “living witness to truth” amid an epidemic of lies? By Rita Ferrone March 24, 2021 Election 2020 U.S. Catholicism
Article Stopping the Vote In the wake of Biden’s victory, Republicans have undertaken a fierce assault on voting rights. By Matthew Sitman March 23, 2021 Domestic Affairs Election 2020
Article Biden & the Border It’s not true that the Democrats have “no good options” on immigration. By Griffin Oleynick March 22, 2021 Immigration Joe Biden Latin America
Article Condemning Myanmar’s Coup Despite violent military retaliation, citizens in Myanmar continue to protest, demanding a return to democracy. By Isabella Simon March 20, 2021 Foreign Affairs Asia
Article Going Big The many beneficial provisions of the American Rescue Plan remind people of the good that the government can do. By The Editors March 18, 2021 Joe Biden Coronavirus Economy
Article An Uncommon Tendency At the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers discovered her rhythm as an author, and helped others discover theirs as an editor. By Anthony Domestico March 14, 2021 Media Books
Article A Welcome Interruption A new book by John Cornwell describes the welcome interruption of Francis’s papacy. By Austen Ivereigh March 9, 2021 Pope Francis Books Nonfiction
Article Why They Loved Him Being a soccer genius set Diego Maradona on a pedestal above his community—and he paid a steep price for that distance. By Santiago Ramos March 6, 2021 Sports Latin America
Article Refounding Chicago How Chicago’s neighborhoods and parishes have been shaped and reshaped by the contributions of Mexican-American Catholics By Milton Javier Bravo March 4, 2021 Latin America U.S. Catholicism Nonfiction
Article The Extremely Online Mind Patricia Lockwood’s new novel explores life, neither online nor offline, but simply with the internet. By Katie Daniels March 3, 2021 Media Books
Article Experiments in Self-Reliance Thoreau’s life is a lesson not in self-reliance, but in discerning whom and what to rely on, whether you’re one person or a state of 29 million. By Jonathan Malesic February 24, 2021 Domestic Affairs Philosophy
Article Why the Farmers Are Angry In India, new laws would make farmers vulnerable to massive corporations and exacerbate the country’s income inequality. By Jo McGowan February 23, 2021 India Foreign Affairs
Article A Wicked Impunity The Supreme Court must hold American corporations accountable for their actions in perpetrating human-rights abuses abroad. By Fernando C. Saldivar February 19, 2021 Social Justice Supreme Court Foreign Affairs
Article Tell Me Your Story For Maria Hinojosa, journalism requires shedding light on the people who have been ignored by mainstream narratives. By Regina Munch April 6, 2021 Latin America Media Interview
Article Last Men and Women Nietzsche was wrong about liberal democracy. Was he right about the kind of people it might produce? By George Scialabba April 1, 2021 Secularism and Modernity Philosophy
Article Poem | El Niño “Then the soft face of El Niño called / Her, and she turned to follow Him” By Diane Scharper March 24, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | I Confess “But everyone liked the poem. / thought it was inspired. Maybe genius” By Stephen Rybicki March 24, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Climate Signals, Sunset Park “The traffic sign flashes / pointillistic messages / into the sloping night” By John Linstrom March 24, 2021 Poetry
Article Poem | Besides “there’s never-heaven always in my hand / reminding me my fingers have no grip / on Heaven ever” By Peter Cooley March 23, 2021 Poetry
Article I don’t know why there is pain and suffering and evil in the world, but I do know—if we’re quiet enough and patient enough with it—there is opportunity there. And therein, I think, lies God. Letters | Love Transcending Law By The Editors March 22, 2021 Letters
