Adam Willis

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Adam Willis is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Politico, The Outline, and Slate.

Feature

‘Who Is This Stupid God?’

On the ground reporting from the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on the Catholic Church have called forth a renewed sense of solidarity

By Adam Willis

February 8, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

The Coming Populist Showdown

Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocrats

By Sam Adler-Bell

March 4, 2019

Religion

Why I Left the Church...and Returned

The Catholic Church today is in crisis. But it is not the hierarchy alone who belong in sackcloth and ashes, begging forgiveness; all of us must become penitents.

By Kathleen Hill

February 25, 2019

Culture

Giving Up Extremes

As Lent approaches, I’ve been in a state of spiritual anxiety over the inevitable renunciation that the season demands. God wants harmonious balance, not excess

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

March 3, 2019