The Vaccine Mandate On September 9, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would be requiring vaccination for all federal workers and contractors, and for health-care workers...
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Justice Breyer Needs to Retire Back in the early days of President Obama’s second term, progressive commentators engaged in a fierce debate over how long Ruth Bader Ginsburg should remain on the...
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Stopping the Vote After losing a presidential election, political parties typically engage in a certain amount of reflection over what went wrong: their candidate’s strategy is debated; their...
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COMMENT A New Cardinal in D.C. On November 28, Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory became the first African-American cardinal in a socially distanced ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome....
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ARTICLE Muddling Through Matthew Sitman A depression memoir like no other HOW TO BE DEPRESSED GEORGE SCIALABBA University of Pennsylvania Press $27.50 | 224 pp. As I read George Scialabba’s...
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Primary Choices If you read only the New York Times and Washington Post, or watch cable news, you might not know that Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination....
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MATTHEW SITMAN Misreading the British Elections Corbyn is no Sanders, Johnson is no Trump. n the weeks leading up to the Con servative Party’s triumph in the British...
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Preeminent? Two stories of political significance emerged from the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last month. The first was the election of the USCCB's first Latino...
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COMMENT The Housing Crisis for Teachers As of today, public-school teachers in forty-nine of the fifty largest U.S. metropolitan areas cannot afford to live where they work. That's because they...
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INTERVIEW Saving Calvin from Cliches An Interview with Marilynne Robinson Matthew Sitman In the spring of 2010 I was teaching in the Politics department at the University of Virginia when the...
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BOOKS Matthew Sitman Reading Left to Right Richard John Neuhaus A Life in the Public Square Randy Boyagoda Image, $30, 459 pages * I Time magazine profiled Richard John Neuhaus in the fall...
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