If you head to Washington seeking evidence of the city’s military takeover, you are very likely to come away disappointed.
US Politics
Posted inDispatches
Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations
Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about escalating deportations.
Posted inNews
Federal judge blocks Texas 10 Commandments law from being enforced in some school districts
A federal judge on Aug. 20 partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
Vatican workers now get 5 days of paid paternity leave. That’s 5 more than U.S. dads.
Alone among its international peers, the United States has no national mandate for paid maternity or paternity leave.
Posted inLast Take
Congressman Tom Suozzi: How to let our better impulses drive American politics
When anyone gets hit, their natural inclination is to punch back, and in Washington these days, that instinct dominates the culture.
Posted inFaith and Reason
How Americans lost our trust in government—and how we can rebuild it
The widespread collapse of social trust has led to a summons to work for its restoration in a variety of significant institutions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Jamie Quatro and the end of the world
In her second novel, Jamie Quatro considers the destruction of worlds—both on a macro and on a personal scale.
Posted inDispatches
America Media begins new initiatives with $5 million Lilly Endowment grant
Kerry Weber: “The Lilly grant is going to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in a more in-depth way and tell new stories that we may not have had the resources to tell otherwise.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal Dolan responds to NYC mass shooting: ‘Never get used to violence’
“We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, following a deadly mass shooting that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.
Posted inFaith, News
Archbishop Pérez, son of migrants, tells migrants: ‘You are not alone’
The archbishop assured migrants in a pastoral letter that “the Church is a community of faith, and the divine person of Christ, who was forced to flee his homeland as a child, holds you in his compassionate arms.”