“Do you believe in them yet?” Well, do you? Do I? I tear these words loose from my not-so-recent past – indeed,…

In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus,…

Growing up, I had virtually no contact with people who identified themselves as Catholics. Perhaps some of my friends and acquaintances in…

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrant parents, is dead at 88 after a prolonged…

Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a…

Hossam Shabat is dead. I am beyond rage and despair as I write these words. The Israeli military bombed his car this…

John Pilger died a year ago on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to…

On July 15, 1979, then president Jimmy Carter went on live television to address the nation. The address he gave that evening — often…

“A giant of journalism” was how Britain’s National Union of Journalists described John Pilger on his death in December 2023. And a…

Before I ever met Jane McAlevey, I received a package from her in the mail. In addition to a copy of Raising Expectations…