When horrible things happen in the world, it’s natural to seek an explanation. Explanations offer a sense of control and meaning in situations that seem...
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Up in the Air directed by Jason Reitman (Paramount Pictures, 2009) The most unbelievable thing about Jason Reitman's slick black comedy is that there...
Inspired by the people featured in our Catholic workers story, but still can’t think of where you might want to get involved? The U.S. Catholic editors...
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) In the 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm...
The ancient Greek word hairesis meant “choice” and identified one’s intellectual “choice” among the many philosophies of late antiquity. The word originally...
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
Growing up in northern Virginia, Derek Eisel had a front-row seat to a changing world. He watched forests cut down and bucolic pasture land paved over into...
Nobody likes to do taxes. That includes James McLaughlin, a Chicago-based attorney with the firm Kirkland & Ellis. But there's an upside to the...
Michael Denson lives in a state where 87 percent of the residents support the death penalty. As far as the Frisco, Texas man is concerned, that's all the...
Six years ago, Sharyn Gildea descended to the darkest place a mother could possibly go. David, her handsome, sweet son, plagued by depression and drugs, hanged...
