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John W. Miller
John W. Miller is a Pittsburgh-based former Wall Street Journal staff reporter and co-director of the PBS film “Moundsville.”
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Articles by John W. Miller
Pope Francis has said that women should have the same rights as men in the workforce. Soccer player Megan Rapinoe, right, has testified in front of Congress for equal pay for women (photo: CNS/AP/America).
Politics & SocietyThe Moral Economy
Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
John W. Miller
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Facebook Wants a Monopoly on Human Connection
John W. Miller
Is there a way to fight back?
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Politics & SocietyThe Moral Economy
Private and religious groups are starting to pay reparations for slavery—but it’s nowhere near enough.
John W. Miller
“From a Catholic point of view, there’s no question that reparations make sense.”
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Politics & SocietyThe Moral Economy
Pope Francis is right: modern poverty in the United States is a scandal. But what are possible solutions?
John W. Miller
In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.
Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in ‘His Girl Friday’; Marty Baron, formerly of the Washington Post; and Steve Novotney, a newspaper entrepreuner in West Virginia (photos: Alamy, AP, and John W. Miller) 
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It’s easy to hate ‘the media.’ But local journalism is essential (and holy) work.
John W. Miller
Journalism gets attention when it breaks big stories about institutions like Enron and the Catholic Church. But they can only do that work if they are consistently read — and broadly trusted.
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The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
John W. Miller
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Meet your bicycle: the transportation incarnation of Catholic Social Teaching.
John W. Miller
Bicycles are theologically sound. Ask Pope Francis.
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Nursing homes were broken long before Covid-19
John W. Miller
We live in the age of the aging, and our capitalist economy is struggling to cope.
Arts & CultureBooks
Review: How China turned the U.S. economy into a warzone
John W. Miller
In 'Superpower Showdown,' Bob Davis and Lingling Wei describe a new Cold War as the United States and China figure out how to manage the repercussions of China’s rise, including U.S. protectionism and tensions over Taiwan, military strength and human rights.
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckereberg and Pope Francis (AP)
Politics & SocietyThe Moral Economy
Inside Pope Francis’ mission to make capitalism work for the common good
John W. Miller
More than any previous pontiff, Francis has been lobbied by C.E.O.s to soften his skepticism about capitalism, and he in turn has pressed them to better serve the poor and the planet.