Last December, the evangelical organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from ...

In the wake of the election of Donald Trump with the strong support of White evangelical and other conservative White ...

Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity ...

One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, radical Puerto Rican activist and civil rights icon, passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76. Best ...

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According to police, a 17-year-old student fired 10 shots into the cafeteria of his Louisville, KY, high school last week, killing 16-year-old Josselin Escalante and injuring an unnamed student before ...

Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, led A Service of Prayer for the Nation on January 21, 2025, at the Washington National Cathedral. President Donald J. Trump and entourage were among the ...

Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with seconds remaining on his presidential clock, Joseph Robinette Biden announced (noticed?) that the Equal ...

Let me spare you the suspense: Yes, the Democrats will someday come to be ashamed of and to regret their shameless support for the disgusting and xenophobic Laken Riley Act, as Michelle Goldberg ...

When you’re raised in an authoritarian Christian community you can never quite comfortably fit into, you learn early on about the ambiguity of language. Words like “love,” for example, mean very ...