The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.
Donald Trump
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Populism isn’t going anywhere. Elites need to listen to the masses to rebuild our democracy.
Social trust cannot be achieved without working through the long-standing resentments of those populist masses who perceive themselves as the ‘deplorables’ of the elite.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
General Mark Milley had a predicament: Follow God’s orders or Trump’s?
America’s top military chief was scorched by right-wing media outlets after book excerpts depicted a series of pre-emptive moves, not to protect the nation from a new terrorist threat but to save it from its outgoing president.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Donald Trump says he’s ‘surprised’ he did not get more of the Catholic vote in 2020
“We did a lot for the Catholic vote,” the former president said on a call announcing the launch of a new national faith advisory board. “So we’ll have to talk to them. We’re gonna have to meet with the Catholics.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Survey: Frequent Mass attendance correlated with support for Donald Trump in 2020 election
Americans who attend religious services frequently were more likely to vote for former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, a new analysis found.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What would St. Ignatius say to our political leaders during these turbulent times?
Ignatian discernment might help our contemporary leaders see where they are being falsely led and where the truth might be.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Reporting on religion can be dark. But we need people on the God Beat more than ever.
The best essays in ‘The God Beat’ are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
Democracy in ‘America’: Our coverage of U.S. politics since the rise of Donald Trump
A month before this Independence Day, a group of 100 scholars warned about “the recent deterioration of U.S. democracy.” America has been covering this topic from all angles; here are highlights from our archives.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Refugee resettlement has a political cost. It is still worth paying.
Though an about-face by the Biden administration brought welcome news to advocates for refugee resettlement, the process raised concerns about the political calculus at work.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We’re all at risk of being radicalized by Facebook. Do these 3 things to resist (if you don’t want to delete your account)
The quietening of the middle—of the many reasonable voices that can disagree but respectfully so; of the many ordinary people contributing to the marketplace of ideas, not burning it down—is a terrible side-effect of Facebook’s business model.