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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds up bills he signed during a bill signing ceremony at the Coastal Community Church at Lighthouse Point on May 16, 2023, in Lighthouse Point, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
J. Kevin Appleby
Ron DeSantis has signaled that he will make Florida’s restrictive immigration policies a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. He is ignoring the fact that our nation relies on immigrant labor.
Members of Community Renewal International at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the front porch of its 10th Friendship House on Sept. 15, 2017, in the Highland neighborhood of Shreveport, La. (Photo courtesy of Community Renewal International)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Tim Muldoon
What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.
FaithShort Take
Jim McDermott
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Justice Hardy, a writer on the television series "True Lies," holds up a sign as members of The Writers Guild of America picket outside Warner Bros. Studios, on May 2, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. The use of ChatGPT is as controversial in the entertainment industry as it is in schools. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
LuElla D'Amico
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
FaithShort Take
Jim McDermott
I’m surprised to find that it’s my confusion about the synodal process that has grown more than my enthusiasm for what is being discussed.
New York police officers gather on the platform at a New York City subway stop after Jordan Neely was placed in a headlock by a fellow rider on a subway train on May 1, according to police officials and video of the encounter. Mr. Neely died of his injuries. (Paul Martinka via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jenn Morson
Two recent tragedies, a death on a New York city subway train and a mass shooting in Texas, show that too many of us follow the temptation to describe others as less than human.