If you list all the details, Kanye West’s “Sunday Service” starts to sound like the invention of a heavy-handed satirist.
Brandon Sanchez
Brandon Sanchez is an audience voices reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was an O’Hare fellow at America.
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Eighty years later, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is a stunning tapestry of social realism
April 14 was the 80th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the greatest social novel of the 20th century.
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In CNN’s ‘The Bush Years,’ decency and duty mask our national sins
As we come to grips with a national history of violence, greed and racialized privilege, this fable of noblesse oblige rings hollow.
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Review: Psst! We are all conspiracy theorists.
Are conspiracy theorists just trying to maintain their empires and hawk merchandise? Am I a conspiracy theorist about conspiracy theorists?
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Death penalty opponents applaud sudden moratorium in California
“The intentional killing of another person is wrong and as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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A new production tells the story of Father Tolton, the slave who became a priest
“His story is so triumphal in the sense of what he was eventually able to do,” responding to persecution and oppression with an outpouring of love.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bernie Sanders talks poverty, mass incarceration and immigration in Brooklyn kickoff
On a snowy Saturday in Flatbush, the snowy-haired independent senator from Vermont kicked off his second bid for president.
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Top 6 Catholic takeaways from President Trump’s State of the Union address
In his 82-minute address, President Trump devoted much of his time to attacks on illegal immigration, but he also called for a ban on late-term abortion and for family leave legislation.
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What it’s like to set up and tear down a Super Bowl halftime show
When I was 19 years old, a production company paid me to attend the Super Bowl.
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Two years in, Trump still fuels Women’s March rallies
In cities across the country, local activists marched in support of a progressive agenda centered on economic justice, racial justice and immigrant rights.