2+ week, 2+ day ago   (656+ words) As a social media editor, most of my day is spent online. Here’s how I’m learning to reclaim my attention. ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA you’ll find sped-up videos of people sitting and doing nothing. They settle in alone, with no phones,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (440+ words) Glad the government cleared that up. I seek comfort in a Big Mac because the rising inflation Joe Biden caused is hurting our economy and, as the White House has patiently explained, Biden’s war against Iran triggered global repercussions which…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (164+ words) In ‘Against Breaking,’ Ada Limón argues the art form has even more potential than we might realize. Poetry is not a product to be sold but a boon to be given. “We need a secular sacred language,” Limón proposes, “something…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (195+ words) Three culture recommendations from our editors. For undocumented migrants facing deportation, church can be more than a place of worship—it can become a home. The documentary Si Pudiera Quedarme (If I Could Stay) follows two migrants who took refuge…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (292+ words) What is “crisis contemplation” and why do we need it now? IN SOME WAYS, this November will be an ordinary national election in the United States. As is true in every “even” year, all 435 seats in the U.S. House…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) Hlynur Pálmason’s drama about the life of an Icelandic family creates a world and characters that he knows completely. Every element of The Love That Remains feels lived in, from the family’s cozy, cluttered home to the armored target-practice dummy…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (323+ words) Learning to recognize the voice that constantly says: “Do not be afraid; I am with you always.” AUGUST IS THE month of spider webs. Where I live in Chicago, they erupt and crackle from corners and streetlamps and porches, birthing…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (442+ words) Resisting the surveillance state at home and in the streets. IN MATTHEW 10, Jesus tells his disciples not to fear their persecutors, for “nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered.” He then assures them that “even the hairs of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (322+ words) It would have been like gouging out our eyes. We have tended to make a metaphor of this idea—we need a vision of the future, a prophetic vision to keep us from going astray. But in the ever stupider…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1048+ words) “DO YOU WANT to go on a walk?” We walked a trail on the outskirts of the camp, cheap buildings sprinkled across the desert, pockmarked with firepits, a basketball court, and a swimming pool with a handwritten “T-shirts must be…...