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Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…y kind of special experience of horror at the news that a child has died. But when I heard about Martin Richard, the eight-year-old bombing victim, my mind did what human brains do—tried to explain the incomprehensible in terms of the familiar—and discovered to its horror that there was a lot that seemed familiar. From Martin Richard’s gap-toothed grin, to the way his “No More Hurting People” sign was clearly carefully printed yet switched between…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…is enough. It’s too painful to go back. What I’m proposing is a struggle, but a necessary one. But their significance can be exaggerated. When progressives leave their counterparts shape the Church more and more as they like it. Some have tried forming alternative Catholic communities, groups that celebrate their own masses in living rooms and rented halls, sometimes even ordaining their own priests. In the most extreme cases, the result has been…

Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

…truggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Like others trying to turn abortion into a racial wedge issue, Crutcher, the director of Maafa 21, points out that black women have a far higher abortion rate than white women. He’s right that this is a result of discrimination, though not in the way he believes. Thanks in part to the anti-abortio…

Romney Goes to Bat Against Reid in Nevada

By Joanna Brooks

…y-infused, mortgage-meltdown-fueled voter backlash in Nevada. Nevada is about as volatile a place as you’ll find in the American West right now. It has the highest rate of mortgage foreclosures, mortgage fraud, unemployment, and bankruptcy in the nation. Over the last two decades, more than 1.4 million people moved to Nevada in search of cheap housing and boom-time fueled hospitality, tourism, and construction jobs, more than doubling the state’s…

After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…ne off to the county pool, which is near our house. I can hear a neighbor cutting his lawn. I should really do the same. But what keeps running through my head is a winter prayer, a collect for the Third Sunday in Advent: Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us. Yes, Lord, come quickly. Fix this mess we have gott…

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

…case of New Orleans and the myriad of cultures it holds, to stint on all of the facets that make New Orleans and Louisiana the wonderful, complex, and sometimes exasperating place that it is is a crime. Disney’s princesses, once again, may have big beautiful eyes, but while kids are enjoying the view, Disney’s hack job of deconstructing history by making it “cute” is just as destructive as a category 5 hurricane. Fun and truth do not have to be m…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…and elsewhere, remain extremely disappointed, more at the media than the authorities. An initiation into politics The sheer preposterousness of the claims, about the Karmapa’s status as a “spy” in particular, did lead international Tibet specialists, such as Dibyesh Anand and Tsering Shakya, to weigh in. (Facebook pages were quickly created; supporters put up Karmapa’s images as profile pictures.) The saga seems to have come to an end for now, th…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…issue. Immigration is a contentious issue not only in the United States, but throughout Europe and the Gulf Region, as well as in countries such as Malaysia. The unregulated movement of people across national borders is a human response to old processes, such as colonialism and imperialism, as well as new ones, including the widening and deepening of capitalism, which increasingly link us together in a common predicament and make our nation-based…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…grated into the wider US health care system, has itself stirred a worry about a loss of authentic Catholic identity in Catholic hospitals. And what’s one thing that has come to be seen in some quarters as especially emblematic of authentic Catholic identity? Say it with me, class: No artificial contraception! Most Protestant church bodies in the United States have come to approve of contraception under some circumstances. The Roman Catholic Church…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…ter sentence correctly on the first try? The chances are pretty darn low. But evolution is more forgiving than that. Getting all 100 residues in their exact order is usually not necessary for a protein to function—often, the majority can be substituted for other residues. It’s as if our computer only had to get the vowels completely correct, but could substitute consonants for each other. More importantly, for Hangman to be more like an evolutiona…