Politics & Society
The intersection between blackness and whiteness
Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone.
Reparations is a spiritual issue
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
How much beef consumption can our planet sustain?
Burning the Amazon to produce more cattle
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
There’s no good reason to bring back the federal death penalty
The Trump administration and public opinion are moving in opposite directions.
W. A. Visser ’t Hooft’s confrontation with nationalist idolatry among Christians
The Dutch ecumenist believed the church can—and must—challenge hateful ideologies.
What if classrooms were shaped by a restorative justice sensibility?
Creating space for a different kind of engagement
Steven Waldman has something new to say about religious freedom in the US
His narrative includes heroes and villains on both sides of the political divide.
Tracing the racist history of the death penalty in Georgia
R.J. Maratea argues that lynching declined when white people began to realize that the courtroom would work just as well.
An Israeli writer’s final word to his fellow citizens
Amos Oz feared that fanaticism was rising in Israel as well as in the West.