The ends don’t justify the means. The American experiment has always rested on that uncomfortable idea. A society that abandons limits, procedures and rules in pursuit of desirable outcomes may not ...

The Vatican's refusal to join President Donald Trump's Board of Peace is a quiet move with a strong meaning. By refusing to lend its name to a leader-centered initiative, the Vatican is drawing a line ...

The word “inevitable” offends our moral sensibilities. It feels like surrender, like an abdication of agency, like a shrug in the face of forces that ought to be resisted. It sounds cold, technocratic ...

Another missed Colorado River deadline has turned a policy dispute into a trust crisis across the American West. On Feb. 14, the seven basin states failed, again, to submit a unified post-2026 plan ...

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