Republicans were as likely as Democrats to say that democracy is in trouble. Does this mean we have achieved a consensus without realizing it?
Donald Trump
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Kellyanne Conway’s Catholic girlhood and my own
Mary Gordon finds that her childhood and that of former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway were strangely similar—and yet diverged in telling ways.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Why Biden’s speech on MAGA Republicans failed
The Democrats and never-Trumpers are obsessed with the loud and visible element of Trump voters who can never be persuaded. They should be focused instead on those who could be.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This doctor just gave the pro-life movement its post-Trump playbook
It is time for pro-lifers to abandon the nose-holding, smash the MAGA idol and find a different way.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn’t have.
The us-them thinking of modern Trumpist populism is nothing new. Americans have been responding to duress with xenophobia and anti-government narratives since the country’s founding.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump tried to break the American story. The Jan. 6 hearings let us tell it again.
These hearings are an attempt to reassure us all that the American story we were taught as kids is not some fairytale that adults told us to help us sleep or to make us easier to manipulate.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What the Jan. 6 hearings could mean for the 2024 election—and the future of democracy
The defenders of democracy need a vision beyond opposition to Donald Trump.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Our readers’ reflections on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
Readers respond to America’s January 2022 editorial, marking the one-year anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The difference between Jan. 6 rioters and Black Lives Matter—and the Catholics who refuse to see it
Why do some members of our church, clergy and laity alike, perceive racial justice movements as more of a threat to the republic than the movement that led to the assault on Congress?
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
How faith leaders can prevent the next Jan. 6
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, talks with Gloria Purvis about how the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 are not as different from ordinary Americans as you might think.