How is the modern game of baseball played, and what is expected? How does it differ from past generations of players?
Criminal Justice
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The coronavirus is exposing our society’s deep inequalities
The coronavirus pandemic is a shared experience for all inhabitants of the world, but it is not the same experience for all.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Fear and uncertainty haunt Mexico’s monarch butterfly reserve after activists’ murder
A shadow hangs over El Rosario where each year millions of monarch butterflies alight on the reserve’s fir trees. Two local protectors of Mexico’s monarch preserve have been killed, and so far, no one can say what happened to them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Ronan Farrow on Harvey Weinstein and the structures of deceit
At almost every stage of his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow says, he encountered roadblocks from NBC’s leadership.
Posted inFaith, Features
The Great Maryknoll Post Office Robbery of 1964
How a tiny U.S. Post Office in Ossining, N.Y., became the site of a caper for the ages.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Police are killing poor civilians in Brazil’s favelas. The church offers protection.
The increasing number of fatal acts of police are among the emerging concerns addressed by the Pastoral of Favelas, an archdiocesan commission created 42 years ago to respond to the needs of Rio’s slum dwellers.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After the LeBarón family massacre, can Mexico’s López Obrador stop the violence?
Mr. LeBarón, the family’s spokesperson, said he hopes he can channel the grief and anger over the killings into a broad social movement. “We want to unite the whole country. We want a social movement, not a political one,” he said.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Reconstructing a lost youth
‘Body Leaping Backward’ is a melancholy, atmospheric memoir that reads as a sort of urgent confession.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
What church and civic leaders can and must do to fight anti-Semitism
Hate crimes, particularly directed at the Jewish community, are stubbornly persistent both worldwide and in the United States, the editors write.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis on prison systems: ‘We will be judged on this’
Pope Francis urged greater efforts to reform prison systems, address the root causes of crime and ensure acceptance and reintegration once a person completes his or her sentence.