Zillow got burned by paying too much for houses. U.S. families are getting burned by skyrocketing housing costs. Artificial intelligence may be making things worse for both.

In surprisingly close accordance with Catholic social teaching, most urban planners say that people should live in close, interactive communities.

How we treat people coming out of prison is a measure of the morality of our economy.

Hyperglobalization means cheap goods delivered fast. It also has implications for labor conditions, economic inequality and the environment, all of which we can no longer ignore.

For as long as “it has existed as an organized sport, baseball has been telling weird lies about where it came from," writes Thomas W. Gilbert in a new book on baseball's origins.

For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.

Is there a way to fight back?

“From a Catholic point of view, there’s no question that reparations make sense.”

In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.

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.