The justices consider whether barring subsidies to religious schools is a type of illegal discrimination.
Religion
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Combating Anti-Semitism Is Core to the Progressive Project
In response to the wave of violence against Jews in New York and New Jersey, progressives must confront the root causes of xenophobia in America and beyond.
Posted inPolitics
Mayor Pete vs. AOC on Religious Left Values
Rolling Stone says the religious left should welcome Pete Buttigieg’s ‘public embrace of Christianity,’ but AOC’s ‘love thy neighbor’ politics reflects the Catholic Worker roots of democratic socialism.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
It’s Time for the Democratic Candidates to Talk About the Muslim Ban
Trump’s policy is no longer in the spotlight, but the ban on visitors from Muslim-majority countries is still separating American families.
Posted inBooks
Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
April 16, 2019
Notre Dame: God must be very angry at Her children. I am neither a Catholic nor any sort of believer, but my first reaction to seeing Notre Dame in flames, oddly, was that God must be very disappointed in us, Her children. This is doubly weird, since the God I imagined was a vindictive Old […]
Posted inTAP
The Israeli Election and American Jews
One major by-product of this week’s Israeli election is that the already gaping rift between Israeli and American Jews is sure to gape even wider. The disappearance of the Israeli left and center-left, as evidenced by the dismal performance of their respective standard-bearers, Meretz and Labor, in Tuesday’s voting, has no counterpart whatever in the […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The GOP’s Crocodile Tears for the Victims of Mosque Massacres
The president and his supporters have stoked fear of Muslims for years. Now, they’re sad for the victims, but not really all that sorry.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Winner? AIPAC!
How Representative Omar’s blunder left the Israel lobby stronger than ever
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What Would Jesus Do?
The radical social justice of the early Christian Gospel and its good news for our own day.
