Last year, a record 47 million Americans quit their jobs, and it was not because of laziness. Here are five major reasons for what is being called The Great Resignation.
John W. Miller
John W. Miller is a Pittsburgh-based former Wall Street Journal staff reporter and co-director of the PBS film “Moundsville.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Ten things Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching taught me about the economy
I spent the past year writing about the economy through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Here’s what I learned.
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Is it time for Catholics to stop eating meat?
The carnivorous cravings of a world of almost eight billion people have radically changed the definition of life on this planet.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We all love Zillow browsing. But there’s a dark side to the real estate app.
Zillow got burned by paying too much for houses. U.S. families are getting burned by skyrocketing housing costs. Artificial intelligence may be making things worse for both.
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How should Catholics think about gentrification? Pope Francis has some ideas about urban planning
In surprisingly close accordance with Catholic social teaching, most urban planners say that people should live in close, interactive communities.
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The U.S. economy sets up ex-prisoners for failure. The consequences are disastrous.
How we treat people coming out of prison is a measure of the morality of our economy.
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Global trade is here to stay. But have we reckoned with the moral costs of its conveniences?
Hyperglobalization means cheap goods delivered fast. It also has implications for labor conditions, economic inequality and the environment, all of which we can no longer ignore.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The true history of baseball is much better than its creation myth
For as long as “it has existed as an organized sport, baseball has been telling weird lies about where it came from,” writes Thomas W. Gilbert in a new book on baseball’s origins.
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Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
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Facebook Wants a Monopoly on Human Connection
Is there a way to fight back?