Politics Archives

When we recite an ancient creed, we aren’t just reminded of our roots but of our current connection to a global church.

In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson discuss dream jobs that, like being appointed to the Supreme Court, have zero requirements. For Hannah, it’s being a justice; for Erin, it’s being a food critic.

Erin and Hannah discuss the way our public discourse has become about winning and sides rather than solving a crisis that is looking for a blame game in separating families. Is it possible for us to set politics aside?

In RBG, West and Cohen offer a welcome salve for our society’s wounds, a celebration of Ginsburg as Ginsburg, irreducible to any political stance.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are a testimony to the power of love to redeem all things, even the most difficult and painful of histories.

When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.

If the heavenly reading of Guerra’s illustration is meant to supplant the intense pain it addresses, then it’s being misread.

The Church has a profound gift for a world hungry for true authenticity: consistent convictions about truth.

My white Christian brothers and sisters can learn how to fight injustice from Eminem’s performance.

Justice and mercy demand an answer for DREAMers, even as we as a nation expend great effort to secure the border and uphold the rule of law.

There’s a long history that’s given us the expectation that our politics should entertain us.

Politically, I came of age in the mid-90s, and I have never forgotten the horror of Rwanda.

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.

With multiple popes in play, the people could freely listen to whichever pope was convenient for them at the time, sort of like national church-shopping.

If our nation’s leading intellectuals can disagree with each other and still be civil, why can’t the rest of us do the same?

Jesus is more cosmopolitan than many ordinary Americans seem to recognize.