My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many different versions of solitaire and slot machine gambling games. In the 1990s my parents bought a desktop computer and my mum started to play mostly card games on it for hours. As technology has progressed, she moved to a…
A federal grand jury has indicted a man who last month was shot several times by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Northern California during a targeted stop. The man, Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, a Salvadoran who had been working in the state, is accused of ramming his vehicle into two agents on April 7…
Have you noticed how Pope Leo’s calm, fearless stance is rattling those in power? He’s not just speaking to Catholics; he’s challenging the very idea that religion should be silent in times of crisis, whether the topic is war or the treatment of immigrants. This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush welcomes two leading…
A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone, Danco Laboratories, filed an emergency appeal to the US supreme court on Saturday asking it to halt a court decision that would require an in‑person exam before the medication can be prescribed. The request came hours after the fifth US circuit court of appeals temporarily reinstated the requirement…
A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of abortion back before the justices in an election year. The request came after a lower court on Friday temporarily restricted abortion providers nationwide from prescribing the pills by telemedicine…
The defense secretary and the Democratic congressman had, in many respects, led parallel lives. Pete Hegseth and Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts both graduated from Ivy League colleges and volunteered to fight in Iraq. Both pushed for more troops and a better strategy for that war in 2006 as violence spiked and Americans turned against…
During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the long-awaited sequel to the 2006 hit would champion body diversity. In interviews, both actors explained that while attending Milan fashion week they were surprised by how “alarmingly thin the models were”. As…
Over 55 years ago, legendary jazz musician Pharoah Sanders recorded a spiritualist masterwork that remains a critical piece of art in 2026. “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” a collaboration with vocalist and poet Leon Thomas, is a 32-minute performance with a liturgical structure and a soaring, spiritual vision. Like St. John of the Cross’…
“Today, Mary Oliver saved my life.” This happens to be the opening line of a poem I wrote a few years back, but in Sasha Waters’ new documentary, “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World,” we see countless pieces of fan mail flood the screen to thank the poet for the same. Perhaps…
In the wee hours I often admire my husband’s muscular back, giving thanks for its “surest protection,” like that of the “resplendent mountain” I recently discovered in a 13th century spiritual memoir by German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg. For Mechthild, the physical is mystical, and the mystical is sensual. After all, as Anne Lamott puts…
