by Jack Moline | Sep 11, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A long time ago, I had an argument with a friend who worked in the president’s administration. The federal government’s public assistance program was undergoing one of its cyclical reevaluations, and a proposal had gained some currency that required recipients without...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 13, 2020 | News
We should not desire a return to our pre-pandemic normality, Pope Francis emphasized in his general address on Sept. 30. COVID-19 has revealed that we lived in an “ailing normality,” the pontiff said, which “was sick with injustice, inequality and environmental...
by Jack Moline | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion
We seem to have a fascination with work – we human beings. From the very beginning of the story we tell about ourselves in Western culture, we are first and foremost concerned about work. The first two words in the Hebrew Bible mean (depending on how you translate)...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and W. Mark Koenig | Aug 20, 2015 | Opinion
A mid-August game at Citi Field between the Pirates and the Mets involved good friends and good baseball. It also involved, in our section, a racial moment. Two young men brought a flag of the Republic of Korea to the game, standing quietly to display the flag each...
by Hugh Hollowell | Mar 31, 2015 | Opinion
So much of what I call the “homeless industrial complex” revolves around power and control. If you look for it, you will find that it is everywhere. In the food pantry: “Stand here, in this line. Here, take this food, we picked out for you. You...
