Sugar is not the only industry that exploits Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, but it offers a unique lens through which to understand racism and xenophobia.
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Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Men for Others: How the famous Jesuit maxim evolved—and what it means to Gen Z
On the surface, the message of the Jesuit maxim “men for others” is simple, but its history and evolution only add to its layered and meaningful message.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The Vatican chief liturgist’s message for Lent
Cardinal Arthur Roche leads the Vatican department responsible for governing the church’s liturgical practices and sacramental rites.
Posted inFaith, Features
A little-known Jesuit’s battle for racial justice in the Deep South
How Louis J. Twomey, S.J., overcame his own prejudice to become one of the most outspoken white allies of New Orleans’s Black community.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The End of Joy in College Education
The time is ripe for rethinking the assumption that the purpose of acquiring a college degree is to snag a job at graduation.
Posted inFaith, Features
Exclusive: Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the American Dream and his new film about Jesus
The struggle for faith ‘is a struggle from which everything else emanates,’ says the storied director.
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Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is politics bad? It depends on your view of human nature.
The headlines suggest that our political systems are incapable of solving big problems. What if we temper our expectations and realize that politics can bring out both the best and worst of humans?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The hidden costs of ‘peak TV’
Television as a popular medium died 25 years ago. It’s time to mourn.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Climate Refugees of Honduras
Small farmers here in the middle of Central America’s dry corridor are almost totally reliant on rainfall to water their crops. As those rains become less reliable because of climate change, crop failures and then migration are the results.