“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”

A bleak alchemy is and always has been at work in the United States, binding documented whoppers to a wider, wilder paranoia.

Newly appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh takes part in the argument over death-penalty methods that may cause “gruesome and brutal pain.”

Whether the site will be developed into luxury apartments or low-income housing remains the subject of contentious debate.

The report examined two distinct approaches to campus ministry. Degree-educated staff tend to emphasize public service, but missionary-trained staff are more likely to focus on students’ personal relationships with God.

The fossil fuel divestment movement, which started in the 2000s, has become a mainstay of activism on college campuses.

The shimmer of liberal democracy has been tarnished with grit and grime, dulled by wear and tear. We are stuck in the ring, brawling in our stars-and-stripes shorts.

This year, the election hovered over the Teach-In, with conversations about immigration and racism predominating.

And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.

Regardless of who wins in November, what happens next for the social-justice movement in America?