The damage Hurricane Ida inflicted on Louisiana was terrible—second only to Katrina 16 years to the day before Ida—but pretty much what forecasters expected...
Margin Notes
Discover Margin Notes columns on economic justice and current events, offering thoughtful reflections for Catholics engaging the world.
When it comes to big-ticket items like homes and cars, we’re used to living debt large through mortgages and auto financing. Most folks have learned, sometimes...
It will be easy on this anniversary of 9/11 to celebrate the courage of the people we came to know from that terrible day as the “first responders”—the...
In the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 1,200 economists from around the world urged governments in an open letter to deploy an emergency...
It’s no surprise that the nation’s most prominent Catholic, Joe Biden, has become the focus of episcopal consternation as the church’s intracultural war over...
Envy is one of the dread seven deadlies, and like decent folk everywhere I’m squarely against it. But I’m not sure envy is the right descriptive for the...
Just a few years back, historically low interest rates provoked a debt binge among governments in the developing world, one partly bankrolled by new...
In his latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship), Pope Francis challenged the hallowed trickle-down effect, that mystical lifter...
Good public schools; regular garbage pickup; well-maintained streets and water systems; police, fire, and EMS first responders: What’s not to like about...
The reports started trickling in soon after the novel coronavirus pandemic provoked lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders that frequently meant whole nations...
