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In this Oct. 2, 2019, photo, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick leaves a meeting at the Capitol in Washington. President Trump fired him on May 15. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/file)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin W. Wildes
Unknown to most citizens, the dozens of inspectors general in the federal government look for waste, fraud and ethics violations. And President Trump has begun firing them, writes Kevin Wildes, S.J.
A Dec. 22, 2019, photo from a rally in Hong Kong to support the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group that has seen an estimated 1 million members detained in internment camps in China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Daniel Philpott
President Trump may be a flawed messenger, but his administration is making significant progress in promoting global religious freedom, writes Daniel Philpott of the University of Notre Dame.
Flying cars, hyperloop trains and other venture capitalist fever dreams are not going to carry us out of our economic mess. (Illustration from iStock/Naeblys)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
We can’t wait for the venture capitalists and their playthings to save us after the coronavirus, writes Nathan Schneider. It is time to turn to the innovation of cooperative economics.
A line of police officers faces a woman participating in a protest on May 29 in Louisville, Ky., of the killing of Breonna Taylor by police in March. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Joseph S. Flipper
The police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville was another example of how geographic and racial partitions deny human rights to certain American citizens, writes Joseph S. Flipper of Bellarmine University.
FaithShort Take
Zac Davis
President Trump’s visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine continues a pattern of using sacred sites for political stunts, writes America associate editor Zac Davis. This is over the line of what the church should tolerate.
In the Ohio and Upper Mississippi river basins, 10 million metric tons of commercial fertilizer is applied each year, and much of it ends up in our waterways. (iStock/filmfoto)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Beacom
In “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis called drinkable water a human right. But as Nathan Beacom writes, our methods of farming and raising livestock are degrading our soil and polluting our waterways.