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The boldest part of Leo’s first encyclical is about war, not artificial intelligence.

Four eminent democratic theorists discuss Francis’s culture of encounter and its significance for democracy in the United States and around the world.

Trump is the sort of miser you come across in some especially ghoulish fairy tale. Will he ever get his comeuppance?

Who should test the world's riskiest drugs? Today, that job falls to the economically vulnerable.

J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

St. John's is attempting to justify a union-busting campaign by appealing to the university's Catholic identity and mission.

Dave Eggers’s latest novel is the meditation of an older, successful artist on what his life might have been if he had been unable to work successfully.

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?