From the Editors
Why is Betsy DeVos taking CARES funding from underprivileged schools and giving it to private schools?
Our nation’s public schoolchildren deserve better.
Gorsuch’s textualism promoted justice for LGBTQ people—this time
Why we can’t rely on this or any other hermeneutical principle
The urgent need for deep changes in American policing
Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?
Political attacks on the US Postal Service threaten more than just the mail
Democracy, equality, and opportunity are at risk.
How can we begin to untangle ourselves from the demands of whiteness?
Being open to changes of mind and heart is a necessary first step.
Bold economic intervention shouldn’t require a pandemic
It turns out the government can take big action to help people.
Wisconsin’s voting problems began long before the pandemic
Those in power have been working for years to prevent votes from counting.
10 years into the Affordable Care Act, a pandemic exposes its limits
The ACA never attempted the kind of structural reform our health-care system needs.
Staying connected during the COVID-19 pandemic
What does it mean to be the church when we can’t be together?
L’Arche’s values of accompaniment, vulnerability, and mutuality are bigger than Jean Vanier
Such values have shadow sides. They are also desperately needed in the world.
What is federally protected land for?
The Trump administration is treating it as plunder. The Antiquities Act saw it as a bearer of stories and wonders.
At the border, “law and order” looks a lot like chaos
Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.
The many failures revealed by the Afghanistan Papers
US officials have been lying about the war since it started. Why don’t we care?
China’s attack on the Uighurs and their Muslim faith
Will the US and other nations speak up?
Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants benefit everybody
New Jersey just became the 14th state to offer them.
If Trump is impeached, it will be hard for Senate Republicans to vote to convict him
They need to do it anyway.
A wealth tax would be good for democracy
The American dream is not just about accumulating private wealth.
Trump’s new refugee limits are senseless and destructive
We already have the infrastructure to resettle far more refugees than the administration is letting in.
Why the “for all” in “free college for all” matters
The advantages of a universal program
A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants
Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter.