As we approach the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, ‘America’ takes a look back at our coverage of the conflict as it unfolded.
Editorials
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: American political life doesn’t need to depend on fear-mongering
Facts are the great enemy of the demagogue, as Senator McCarthy learned so many years ago.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Joe Biden’s Supreme Court reforms are not enough to heal our ailing democracy
The United States is overdue for a serious conversation not just about possible changes to the Supreme Court, but also about the functioning of our entire system of government.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
What America Needs After the Trump Assassination Attempt
We need more than cooler rhetoric. We need a politics for the common good.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
There will be no perfect abortion law. But the pro-life movement can still make progress.
What is needed, far more than a perfect abortion law, is a clear focus on the moral failure of a society in which abortion rates are rising rather than falling, in which too many women feel afraid, unable or unwilling to carry pregnancies to term and welcome new life into the world.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Biden must keep up the pressure for a cease-fire in Gaza
If Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to take the political risk of moving toward a cease-fire, President Biden should respond with a withdrawal of all U.S. military aid used to support Israel’s Gaza offensive.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
We stand in solidarity with migrants and asylum seekers.
No just law can stop solidarity at the arbitrary line of a border, nor can a just government require the church to condition the works of mercy on the immigration status of those in need.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Why People Are Rejecting Religion—and How to Draw Them In
If people are not even conscious of a need for religion, the church must also ask how it can help people recognize that the most basic restlessness only finds its rest in God.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Most voters oppose a Biden-Trump rematch. Our primary system made it all but inevitable.
In a year that is supposedly a test of “small-d” democracy, the voice of the voters seems fainter than ever.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Gaza, Ukraine and what makes a ‘just war’
The overriding concern is that the goal of a just war must always be to restore or establish peace.