Donald Trump is the only man in politics brave enough to stand up and declare that the emperor has no clues. “Our president doesn’t have a clue,” Trump said in his campaign announcement speech. “We have people that don't have,
Pope Francis's address on the White House lawn Wednesday morning covered a range of topics, including religi
Last year, the number of people forced from their homes by war, famine, or natural disaster, passed 50 million for the first time since World War II. According to the United Nations, 19.5 million of t
As Pope Francis prepares to address a joint session of Congress on Thursday, many conservatives are preparing for the worst: a speech that marginali
Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesWhen my daughter was in elementary school, she wore her hair long, and every night before I began reading aloud to her, I sat behind her to comb and then braid it. If left loose during her hours of hectic sleep and dreams, Sophie’s hair was transformed into a great bir
Pope Francis is visiting America, and during his trip he'll undoubtedly be acclaimed for his liberality and care for the poor. But amid the celebration, let us remember that his church still officially refuses to give women their reproductive rights, including contraception. Here's a particularly di
Several participants at the Republican debate last week spoke fervently about putting Rosa Parks’ image on the $10 bill. They also spoke fervently in support of a decision by Congress to defund Planned Parenthood—an organization that counted Rosa Parks among the
“I work hard for my money, I work hard for my kids, and I think we all deserve better,” Pamela Flood told me in 2012, her voice ragged from leading chants on the picket li
On November 14th, 1998, a young Indian man named Neil Grover killed himself. Neil was bright: He was studying to become a doctor and doing w
Pope Francis has arrived in the United States for the first papal visit in seven years. Over the next few days, the country will hear his perspective on the state of countless cultural affairs, from climate change to the prison indu
Last May, the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates interviewed Marvel comics editor Sana Amanat about diversity in superhero comics. It was an issue close to both of them personally: Amanat has spearheaded the reinvention of Ms. Marvel as a M
On Tuesday afternoon, with the nation’s attention turned to Pope Francis making landfall in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton gave an Iowa town hall the answer environmentalists have long waited to hear from her on the Keystone XL pipeline. “I oppose it,”
