While it might be due to the smell of legalized marijuana in the streets, the stink goes far deeper. It is emblematic of a steady march towards a society that would be unrecognizable to the founders, ...

The United States has a vast array of government programs that are meant to alleviate poverty, from food stamps to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Bill Program. Yet these efforts don’t actually ...

In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For Black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

The prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, has written a new book entitled, “Letter to a Young Priest,” in which he ...

THE idea that poverty is one of the cardinal virtues was always a great comfort to teachers. If they were denied luxuries, they preferred rather to think that they denied themselves luxuries, and they ...

Instead, they got a man-made disaster, a deliberate slowdown of growth driven not by geographical disadvantage or domestic inefficiency but by a global campaign to divert affordable fossil fuels from ...

In a nutshell, the future of the United States as we know it depends upon a resurgence of and commitment to individual virtue. In his 1798 letter to the Massachusetts Militia, second President of the ...

How can we reduce interracial prejudice? A new study in The Journal of Positive Psychology has developed a novel approach using ideas about virtue. Their findings are preliminary but encouraging. Led ...