Maybe we just like victimizing each other and never addressing basic problems. But our young citizens have had enough of this political show and are making a spectacle of their own.
US Politics
Posted inMagazine, Of Many Things
We must build our public square on civil dialogue
No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lucy McBath lost her son to gun violence. Now, she wants to fight the hate that fuels it.
We all share the belief that gun violence has no place in our society, nor does the hate that often precipitates the gun violence.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
How Catholics influence U.S. politics
This week, we talk with Steven P. Millies about the role of U.S. Catholics in politics.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Did Kavanaugh and the caravan affect the election?
President Donald Trump billed the midterms as an election about “Kavanaugh and the caravan,” and it was — although not entirely as he planned.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Will the midterm elections results advance the immigration debate?
Exit polls indicated that immigration was second only to health care in the minds of voters.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Women have been leading since Biblical times—they can lead again today.
The record number of women who will be serving in Congress following the momentous 2018 midterm elections may not be aware that the Bible supports their initiative to serve in this moment of political crisis.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Your Catholic 2018 midterm roundup: health care, wages, abortion and more
Many ballot measures supported by Catholic leaders saw success in the Midterms.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
After the midterms, can the new Congress work together? Here’s where they could start.
After the midterms, there are a variety of other issues on which compromise is still achievable and where “good politics” can still be practiced.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why are so many people fleeing Honduras?
“We are living in calamity, a humanitarian crisis in Honduras. Today they left. Tomorrow they will leave…. Three hundred people leave Honduras every day.”