A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.

A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.

The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.

From the Editor - Volume 53 Issue 1

For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

Mr. Smith’s testimony will be the latest public clash over the use of prosecutorial power in American politics.

New money and age-old injustice in an American river town.

According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”

Can we preserve the connection between personal writing and human experience in the Slop Age?

7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed.

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

The California Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County to return ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation.

Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.

The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations.

Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race

Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, made the comments at a private lunch in Austin, according to attendees.

The small-business owners with curiously large fortunes

In a blistering attack on the court, President Trump said “these are not the people I interviewed” to serve as justices.

The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.

"It pains me to reflect on how much Leah — who will forever be one day shy of her 25th birthday on this side of eternity — missed out on," writes NCR's Brian Fraga.

Commentary: A wealthy network that puts forth a peculiarly American version of Catholicism has far more influence than U.S. bishops have in shaping the image and purpose of the church in the wider cul...

Chad Pecknold, a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America, has begun working for the government agency that oversees immigration enforcement.

We won’t get fooled again.

The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.

Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.

Also this month: Several unions are entering mediation to hopefully wrap up monthslong bargaining efforts, and Auburn University faculty begin to formalize their pushback to recent policy overhauls.