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The Met Opera’s production of ‘Dead Man Walking’ transports its audience to spaces of suffering only God can know.

Repairing the destruction in Derna, Libya, requires significant humanitarian aid. The United States has an obligation to provide it.

What if the starting point of ecological transformation is death instead of life?

For radical traditionalists in the U.S., Donald Trump is the new Constantine—and Pope Francis is the equivalent of a barbarian invasion.

The biggest winner in our current Farm Bill is Big Agriculture. SNAP recipients and small farmers deserve better.

Plays by Theresa Rebeck and Rebecca Gilman dramatize the psychic tumult of grief and the difficult work of forgiveness.

It may seem ageist or unkind. But Americans should be forgiven their hesitancy in returning someone who will be eighty-two years old to the nation’s highest office.

A conversation with Jake Heggie, the composer who adapted the story of Sr. Helen Prejean's work against capital punishment as an opera.

Reining in the pharmaceutical industry is an important step toward making health care more affordable for everyone.

Striking autoworkers resist an economy designed to make the rich richer no matter the cost.

Science’s threat to faith is actually no threat at all.

‘Contempt’ is Godard’s greatest attempt to bring order to the world of cinema, to tame its commercial side and create a beautiful film.