American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Enduring Appeal of Marriage
In 2008 the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided that the provision of civil unions for same-sex couples…
The War on Humans
During its first century, environmentalism succeeded brilliantly. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law creating…
The Joyless House of Cards
The second season of Netflix’s House of Cards introduces a new aide for Vice President Frank Underwood, who seems…
America’s Mandarin Problem
A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A…
Andrew Cuomo and the liberal blacklist
Pete Seeger died on January 27, rich in years (ninety-four) and in honors (a lifetime-achievement Grammy, the…
Lincoln’s Faith and America’s Future
Though Abraham Lincoln was neither baptized nor joined a church of any kind, he was the most…
Marriage, Sex, and Politics
On Saturday Eric Holder announced he will apply the recent Supreme Court Windsor ruling as widely as…
Preventing (Some) Suicides
Since Jack Kevorkian first made headlines in 1990, the media have touted assisted suicide by the dying…
Forgetting Middle America
Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had…
The Devil in the Details
Slow, old python of my Everglades,he astutely picks where he invades:data dumps; the depths of lower courts;knotted…
Letters
Jesus in Islam In “Jesus the Muslim Hippie” (December), Gabriel Said Reynolds demonstrates the dissonance within the…
Art and Soul
A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connor farrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18If we could accurately map…
New Homophiles: Stories Without a Who or What
Spend time before a crucifix and the major virtues Christ Jesus embodies there are quickly in evidence:…
Little Sisters in the Political Madhouse
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the administration’s mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor…
The Poorest of the Poor
Pope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the…
