The Thirty Meter Telescope would cover six acres on Mauna Kea, one of the most sacred places in Hawaii, and women are leading the resistance.
Short Take
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
What happens when a black hockey player boycotts the White House?
American sports and politics are lurching toward their next racially charged collision.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
College Board C.E.O.: Religious schools have gifts for everyone
Our religious institutions have spent centuries cultivating practices, from solitude to humility, that allow us to learn and grow.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Separating immigrant families is a cruel means to a cruel end
Separating families will not stop drug traffickers or gang members. Its only purpose is to punish migrants seeking their own American dream.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What I saw at the Mother’s Day massacre that stunned Nicaragua
By the end of the day, a reported 16 more people were killed and nearly 200 were injured.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What can Catholic preachers learn from Bishop Michael Curry’s Royal Wedding sermon?
Fabricated and impersonal, too many Catholic preachers hide themselves, forgetting that personality matters in preaching.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Palestinians protest for the right to return, but to what?
The Gaza Nakba demonstrations this week have done nothing to advance the situation of Palestinian refugees, nor did they provide relief to the people of Gaza, who dwell in an open-air prison, hemmed in and oppressed at every turn.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Protesting our country’s nuclear weapons is (still) worth going to jail for
Despite being out of sight, the bombs are as ever-present as micro-aggressions and mass incarceration.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Prescriptions are no longer the chief cause of the opioid crisis
Excess opioid pills can fall into the wrong hands, but we should not respond by denying relief to millions with long-term or intense pain.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The conflict in Israel is about more than borders. It’s about faith.
Most Israelis realize that the land, ultimately, belongs not to any one side but to God.