The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

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A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese ...

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and ...

“The destruction I saw there was astonishing.” A detailed account from a doctor who, during the brief ceasefire, spent nine ...

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

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Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

From the daily newsletter: as the Administration flirts with contempt of court, two federal judges are trying to uphold the ...

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

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People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.