American Politics

On Saturday Eric Holder announced he will apply the recent Supreme Court Windsor ruling as widely as…

Since Jack Kevorkian first made headlines in 1990, the media have touted assisted suicide by the dying…

Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had…

Slow, old python of my Everglades, / he astutely picks where he invades: / data dumps; the…

Jesus in Islam In “Jesus the Muslim Hippie” (December), Gabriel Said Reynolds demonstrates the dissonance within the…

A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connor farrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18If we could accurately map…

Spend time before a crucifix and the major virtues Christ Jesus embodies there are quickly in evidence:…

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the administration’s mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor…

Pope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the…

Liberal commentators, both religious and secular, have cheered what they take as the recent comeuppance Catholic and…

John Howard Yoder’s now-classic The Politics of Jesus sparked a revolution. For centuries, Jesus’ lordship had been…

November 18 marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of…

I cannot think of anything more disastrous for the Republican Party than an attempt to impeach the…

She has no gold, no myrrh, no frankincense, / Yet comes to him this night on bended…

n Harvard professors do a bad job of holding on to freshmen. In the last eleven incoming…