According to a rash of new polls, Americans have come together over the belief that the country’s major institutions are seriously out of whack.

“This rush to execute would be reckless in any state, but Oklahoma in particular has a horrendous track record for problematic executions.”

The idea that the government should broadly reflect the values of the majority of the governed is in serious trouble.

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.

I’ve been feeling so down on the state of affairs in this nation that I’ve started to wonder if I can even celebrate the Fourth of July this year without feeling painfully disingenuous. So I looked to my colleagues for hope.

The present age of polarization has unleashed the most ferocious forces, which seem hellbent on creating a narrow unity only through cynical division.