California Supreme Court studies measure to expedite death penalty cases
Opponents are challenging a narrowly-approved California ballot proposition that would speed up executions.
Politics
'Young Radicals' chronicles last century's US progressives
Book review: One hundred years ago, progressives' work was cooled by the severity of World War I, but five notable ones nevertheless persisted. Jeremy McCarter's new book brings them back to life for us.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds injunction on Trump's travel ban
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a White House request to overturn an injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries.
How Trump is highlighting divisions among Southern Baptists
"Barack Obama didn't divide us. Donald Trump divided us"
Nathan Finn, School of Theology, Union University
Is President Trump vindicated after Comey's testimony?
NCR Today: Former FBI director James Comey's testimony appears to put President Trump in a heap of trouble.
Politics, culture or theology? Why evangelicals back Trump on global warming
Predominantly white evangelical Protestants often hailed President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement while Catholics, mainline Protestants and leaders of other faiths decried it.
America's George III moment: What to do when the sovereign is mad?
Commentary: After the recent testimonies, I suspect most Catholics, like most Americans, are disturbed by what we are learning about the president's behavior, whether they voted for him or not.
Editorial: Making America small and inconsequential
We say: Trump's renunciation of our global citizenship is as frighteningly shortsighted and dangerous as denying climate science.
Does Hillary Clinton still have a role to play?
NCR Today: I feel compelled to say a few words about Hillary Clinton, following her commencement speech at Wellesley College and her interview at the Code Conference in California.
With Trump, we are not in a 'pro-life moment'
Distinctly Catholic: I consider abortion an infamy and care about the unborn as much as Mr. Pence and Mr. Anderson, but I care that the unborn will have a planet to live on, too.
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July 14-27, 2017
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