Human-driven climate change is intensifying tropical cyclones across the globe, climatologists say, but the role it played in the tragedy at Mexico Beach is both subtle and surprising.
US Politics
Posted inOpinion, Politics & Society
How can we get beyond the battle of the sexes?
Let’s begin to enlist both left and right in service of the vulnerable—using the ideological language they already accept.
Posted inFaith, News
Baltimore Archdiocese, Catholic Charities help launch Parish ID
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, Archbishop William E. Lori and Catholic pastors who minister to those from foreign countries announce the establishment of a Parish ID program.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Back to the future with Nancy Pelosi and Paul Krugman
Speaking in a deep blue stronghold, the Democratic leader of the House calls for “civility” and cautiously hopes that she will again wield the speaker’s gavel in January.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Data mining gets religion as campaigns target voters of faith
Knowing voters’ religious identities can help campaigns decide how to craft ad language in ways that simply knowing their views on abortion, which often divide down both religious and political lines, wouldn’t dictate.
Posted inFaith, News
Pastor and activist William J. Barber II wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
Earlier this year Barber resurrected the Poor People’s Campaign, first organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The fight to save the soul of the G.O.P.
The G.O.P. was founded to oppose slavery, which makes it all the more ironic that the party of freedom finds itself in bondage—to itself.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Slashing refugee numbers is unethical and harms our country
It should go without saying that there is little justification for such a callous and indifferent response to refugees at the exact moment that the United States enjoys its strongest economy in a generation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Negotiating tensions in a postsecular world
The Catholic Church needs to recognize that moved from a secular public sphere—marked by separate and specialized spheres of economy, science, faith and so forth that manage their own concerns in an insular way—to a postsecular public sphere, in which a multiplicity of voices and expertise are welcome to weigh in on an issue.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Gospel According to John Kerry
The story of Kerry’s faith journey is among the most evocative parts of the new memoir by the former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state.