The critic and novelist John Berger argues that “the future has been downsized”—restricted to the mercenary parameters of finance capital and digital technocracy.
Americans streaming south to explore the latest vacation hotspot should not be surprised to hear so many Cubans still saying, in Russian, “Spasiba” (“thank you").
Judging from Donald Trump’s cabinet choices, it turns out that a narcissistic billionaire who doesn’t pay taxes might not be a working-class champion after all.
Nothing would do more to energize social-justice movements than a broad-based coalition able to break through the impasse of abortion politics in the United States.
One of the most important contributions Pope Francis is making to the church concerns his efforts to exercise the kind of pastoral magisterium Pope John hoped for.
Losing to the “atheistic progressive agenda” might be good for the American church. Just look to that specter haunting the nightmares of U.S. conservatives: Sweden.
Supporters said Donald Trump would surround himself with competent people and not just diehard loyalists and bomb-throwers. For the most part, this hasn't happened.
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.
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?