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Doing Enough REGINA MUNCH In college, a guidance counselor regularly lectured our cohort on the importance of being “impactful.” Impactful people are “doers”: they see a problem, need, or...

Don't disengage (December 2024)

A Sobering Map The morning after the election, I emailed a friend at 5 a.m., all but tremoring with symptoms of acute Trump Derangement. “For the second time in eight years,” I wrote, “the American...

Considering the case for marriage (October 2024)

Happily Ever After? Regina Munch Two recent books discuss the social and economic advantages of marriage My seventh-grade English teacher liked to mix life advice into her lessons on sentence...

Border-policy changes (July 2024)

Toxic Tech In mid-June, one year after releasing a report about the threats posed by social-media platforms to young people’s mental health, U.S. surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy issued another...

Illiberal Liberations (June 2024)

Illiberal Liberations REGINA MUNCH After graduating from college, I interned at a refugee-resettlement agency in Philadelphia. One day, we took students in the vocational English class to...

Grocery profiteering (May 2024)

Spoiler Alert “It’s time we put a Kennedy back in the White House,” says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the seventy-year-old nephew of the only Kennedy to have served as president. Why...

Chaos in Haiti (April 2024)

Suicide as Protest Self-immolation as a form of political protest has a long tradition. Among the most famous examples is that of twenty-year-old Jan Palach, who, in 1969, set...

Deadly Roads (February 2024)

Executioners in Chief For a time, it seemed the United States would end the use of capital punishment at the federal level. There’d been an unofficial moratorium on executions in place since...

Noreen Herzfeld, John P. Slattery & Bishop Paul Tighe (January 2024)

Imitation Isn’t Enough An interview with Bishop Paul Tighe, Noreen Herzfeld, and John P. Slattery In December, the AI Research Group for the Vatican Centre for Digital Culture released...

The Polish elections (November 2023)

Reading ‘Laudate Deum’ Pope Francis concludes Laudate Deum, his new apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis, by pointing to carbon emissions in the United States and condemning the...

Negotiating the Farm Bill (October 2023)

SHORT TAKES REGINA MUNCH Food Fight We need a new kind of Farm Bill. The Farm Bill doesn’t usually get as much press as some other congressional actions. Something like raising the debt...

The coup in Niger (September 2023)

The Coup in Niger On July 26, a coup in Niger removed the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. The junta insisted it acted because of the...

Migrants in the Mediterranean (July 2023)

Gun Crazy The word “quixotic” inevitably appears in coverage of Gavin Newsom’s campaign for a Constitutional amendment enshrining common-sense gun control. The Democratic governor of California...

A case against consolidation (June 2023)

Let Them Eat TVs Regina Munch How we traded away our democracy for cheap stuff In January 2021, New York Times reporter Peter S. Goodman visited a family of cattle ranchers in Shepherd, Montana....

Peace in Tigray? (December 2022)

The COP27 Climate Conference Like previous climate conferences, November’s COP27 has inspired both enthusiasm and frustration. For two weeks every year, the United Nations Framework Convention on...

Smothering the Coptic Church (September 2022)

Lock Him Up? On the morning of August 8, while former president Donald Trump was away at an event in New York, FBI agents executed a federal search warrant at his residence at Mar-a-Lago. They left...

Heads & Tales (April 2022)

Heads & Tales REGINA MUNCH Returning to the United States from Beirut in 1837, Commodore Jesse D. Elliott brought with him some remarkable souvenirs: two marble sarcophagi. Elliott claimed...

Bethlehem Farm, West Virginia (November 2021)

“Welcome home.” This is the greeting all visitors receive at Bethlehem Farm, a Catholic intentional community dedicated to service, hospitality, and simple living. As I arrive at the community’s...

Botching Biden's agenda (October 2021)

Botching Biden’s Agenda The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budgetreconciliation bill is now under consideration in Congress. A key piece of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, the Build Back...

John Ghazvinian (June 2021)

INTERVIEW Iran & America An interview with John Ghazvinian John Ghazvinian is the executive director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an author, historian, and...

Maria Hinojosa (April 2021)

An interview with Maria Hinojosa Tell Me Your Story Regina Munch Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CNN, and NPR, as well as anchoring...

Lame-duck executions (January 2021)

Lame-Duck Executions In July, the Trump administration ordered the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee. It was the first time a federal prisoner had been put to death since 2003. As of this writing,...

Saving New START (November 2020)

COMMENT NagornoKarabakh On September 27, intense fighting broke out in the rugged Nagorno-Karabakh region of the southern Caucasus, shattering a shaky peace that had held for nearly three...

Pirates (October 2020)

BOOKS The Cut of Their Jib REGINA MUNCH PIRATES A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders peter lehr Yale University Press $30 | 272 pp. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has...

Robert P. Jones (October 2020)

INTERVIEW An interview with Robert P. Jones Baptizing White Supremacy Regina Munch Robert P Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and writes regularly on...

Bryan Massingale (July 2020)

INTERVIEW ‘Worship of a False God' An interview with Bryan Massingale Regina Munch Fr. Bryan Massingale is a professor of theology at Fordham University and the author 0/Racial Justice and the...

Tara Reade & #MeToo (June 2020)

Tara Reade & #MeToo Tara Reade’s allegation that Joseph Biden sexually assaulted her when she was a Senate aide in 1993 is the gravest, but not the first, accusation of improper behavior toward...

COVID-19 and the church (May 2020)

COVID-19 and the Church On April 12, Catholics in the United States observed Easter Sunday mostly alone. With churches closed and Masses canceled in the midst of a global pandemic, community...

Australia on fire (February 2020)

COMMENT American Gangsters he same day that the articles of impeachment of Donald Trump were delivered to the U.S. Senate, Lev Parnas—an associate of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy...

Lifeline (February 2020)

ARTS REGINA MUNCH Lifeline Nick Cave’s ‘Ghosteen’ ver three decades, the Australian musician Nick Cave has turned out a genre-span ning body of work, from the snarling...

Progressive DAs (January 2020)

COMMENT The Afghanistan Papers The Washington Post's “Afghanistan Papers” story was disheartening and in many ways infuriating, but it was not shocking or even surprising. The grim facts are...

Christmas Critics (December 2019)

Regina Munch n n eace on earth, good will toward men,” we sing this Christmas season, echoing the words of the heavenly host in announcing Jesus' birth to the shepherds. This year I read a lot of...

Cruelty's the Point (August 2019)

COLUMNIST Regina Munch Cruelty’s the Point PUNISHING HUMANITARIAN ACTIVISTS AT THE BORDER On July 2, federal prosecutors announced that they would retry Scott Warren, an activist with the...

Why Learn History (June 2019)

Regina Munch A Textbook Case Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) Sam Wineburg The University of Chicago Press, $20, 240 pp. £ £ TT ow, you studied history?" I braced...

Venerable Beads (December 2018)

LAST WORD Venerable Beads Regina Munch was hardly the only Catholic kid to have received rosaries as gifts. For my First Communion, my neighbors gave me a slender string of cream and orange...

The Vampire (November 2018)

Regina Munch Blood Types The Vampire A New History Nick Groom Yale University Press, $25, 320 pp. Right from the start, a recent long-anticipated trip to Romania delivered on its promise. On...

Tailspin (October 2018)

BOOKS Regina Munch Things Fall Apart Tailspin The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall—and Those Fighting to Reverse It Steven Brill Knopf, $28.95, 464 pp. The first step in...

What You Did Not Tell (January 2018)

Regina Munch Shelter from the Storm What You Did Not Tell A Russian Past and the Journey Home Mark Mazower Other Press, $25.95, 400 pp. In his 1998 book Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth...

Twitter and Tear Gas (December 2017)

Regina Munch Share This Protest Twitter and Tear Gas The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest Zeynep Tufekci Yale University Press, $26, 360 pp. In 2009, a group of Harvard researchers...

The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy (January 2017)

Regina Munch Remaking the World The Tragedy of U. S. Foreign Policy How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest Walter A. McDougall Yale University Press, $30, 424 pp. In June...

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