“From a Catholic point of view, there’s no question that reparations make sense.”

In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.

Journalism gets attention when it breaks big stories about institutions like Enron and the Catholic Church. But they can only do that work if they are consistently read — and broadly trusted.

The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.

We live in the age of the aging, and our capitalist economy is struggling to cope.

More than any previous pontiff, Francis has been lobbied by C.E.O.s to soften his skepticism about capitalism, and he in turn has pressed them to better serve the poor and the planet.