This year, the election hovered over the Teach-In, with conversations about immigration and racism predominating.
Brandon Sanchez
Brandon Sanchez is an audience voices reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was an O’Hare fellow at America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Great poetry that makes no sense: America’s 2018 Poetry Roundup
And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The year the Democrats met the democratic socialists
Regardless of who wins in November, what happens next for the social-justice movement in America?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Al Smith Dinner 2018: a night of light and dark moments
The night—at times weighed down by sobering reminders of abuse—was overlaid with levity.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Back to the future with Nancy Pelosi and Paul Krugman
Speaking in a deep blue stronghold, the Democratic leader of the House calls for “civility” and cautiously hopes that she will again wield the speaker’s gavel in January.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Kanye West, S.N.L. and the incoherence of modern life
Kanye is id-made-flesh, an extreme and uncomfortable example of what we all look like when turned inside out.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Faith leaders at the United Nations: we must change our approach to refugees
“Refugee protection has been politicized…and refugees have been denigrated in our public debate.”
Posted inFaith, News
Pennsylvania bishops support creating fund to compensate survivors of sex abuse
The bishops of Pennsylvania’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses are supporting creation of an independent fund to compensate survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic schools challenged by changing demographics
Only about 8 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are Hispanic, compared with 17 percent of students. Low salaries and a weak professional pipeline make it difficult to diversify the teaching staff.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Trump administration’s record-low refugee resettlement “contradicts who we are as a nation”
The announcement that the United States will cap its intake of refugees at 30,000 was swiftly denounced by Catholic leaders.