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Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized…

Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura…

In a recent New York Times “Ideas” piece , “Maybe America Needs Some New Cities,” housing and urban development reporter Conor Dougherty writes of a new kind of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship that…

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum , or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor . And like Leo XIII…

Unlike the coverage of so many of its transgressions, reporting on the Trump administration’s “ America-themed prayer rally ,” known officially as Rededicate 250, was largely accurate. Event…

Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says…

On May 17, the New York Times published a guest essay by Katya Ungerman—“We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages” — attributing a strange surge of both conventional religious observance and…

Another mass shooting. This is America . More dead Muslims. This is America. These are stories I have written about for a quarter of a century. The only reason it hasn’t been longer is because I’m…

In 2015 Illinois became the first state in the country to pass an anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) law. A little over a decade later the state is in a fight to be the first to repeal one. At stake…

On April 29, in Louisiana v. Callais , the Supreme Court rendered Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, in Justice Kagan’s words , “all but a dead letter.” The 6-3 decision reset the rules for…