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A landmarked PepsiCola sign stands in Long Island City near the site for a proposed Amazon headquarters in the Queens borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The sign previously was part of a former bottling plant nearby. City and state officials promised at least $2.8 billion in tax credits and grants to lure Amazon to Queens, where it would occupy a new campus built around a formerly industrial boat basin. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The impending arrival of e-retail behemoth Amazon on East River shores has one L.I.C. resident yearning for real community and contemplating the next New York City ZIP code he will inhabit.
FaithFaith in Focus
Brian Faherty
This was the first time I realized that being the H.R. rep across the desk from someone I knew provided comfort for them.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
After the midterms, there are a variety of other issues on which compromise is still achievable and where “good politics” can still be practiced.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The true meaning and purpose of wealth is to use it to lovingly serve others and promote human dignity, the Pope said Nov. 7 during his weekly general audience.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson inspects the federal department’s Fair Housing Door Exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Brianne Jacobs
Democratic socialism, this year’s political buzz phrase, follows the Catholic social teaching principle of people over profit. Its penchant for big solutions at the national level may not fit C.S.T. as neatly.