Voices
Nathan Schneider, a contributing writer for America, is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
It rsquo s a common caricature that climate change is a boutique cause a kind of luxury that concerns only those who can afford a new Prius A lot of the most visible faces in the climate movement mdash Al Gore Bill McKibben Naomi Klein mdash imply a demographic that is white affluent and seemi
In All Things
Supporting business models that keep wealth in the communities and families that generate it
Columns
Do Catholics recognize the moral imperative to build the economy cooperatively?
Would abolishing political parties revive the American political spirit?
We may be learning to see and to value our commons again In my last print column for America I wrote about the intersection between Catholic tradition and the notion of the commons mdash a kind of economy in which shared treasures are governed by those who depend on them not by a state or market
I went to Detroit last week looking for the concrete for the tangible stuff I rsquo d heard was there mdash guerrilla farms carved into abandoned lots foreclosed homes turned into communes and other such peeks into the apocalyptic future that maybe other cities have coming their way when the Ameri
Joshua Davis rsquo s two-year-old son has congenital talipes equinovarus or club foot and the treatment requires him to wear specialized orthopedic shoes to bed He recently outgrew his current shoes and needs a new pair However the health insurance that covers him comes through his father rsquo
Jesus once said something about loving our enemies That rsquo s a hard thing to do and it is especially hard with an enemy as vicious as the Islamic State Yet there have been times mostly late at night when I think I rsquo ve made some progress in doing so Maybe I rsquo m being tricked by the
Synod on the Family
Editor’s Note. “Families,” Pope Francis noted in a homily on Sept. 14, “are the first place in which we are formed as persons and, at the same time, the ‘bricks’ for the building up of society.” In preparation for the launch of the Synod of Bishops on the Fa