HR 40 is about more than money. It’s about grappling with history.
From the Editors
The Century's take on the issues of the day
We’re long past the time for gradual changes.
It’s not that we lack information about religion. It’s that we don’t deeply inhabit the religious stories we do know.
But first, they need all 400 pages.
An ELCA bishop apologized for sexist comments he made—without claiming that they were out of character.
The voting rights provisions of the “For the People Act” should be uncontroversial.
The No More Deaths volunteers were imitating the logic of the incarnation.
The border wall means a lot to Trump. It means very little for public policy.
The new criminal justice law is modest. But it may signal a shifting narrative.
The fall of Sears reflects larger problems with how corporations are run.
When agents came for Samuel Oliver-Bruno, 27 of his church friends stood in their way.
Climate science is apocalyptic: it reveals fundamental truths.
The migrants have bigger concerns than U.S. policy. They know the terrors they are fleeing.
It took public pressure to convict Jason Van Dyke. It will take more pressure to reform the police.