Ruth Braunstein revisits her 2019 essay on efforts to reframe the budget as a moral concern. Her work sheds light…
Revisited: Making budgets moral again
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Making budgets moral again
The release of the Poor People’s Moral Budget calls forth decades of efforts to reframe the budget as a moral…
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
Good troublemakers
Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…
Faith caught between racism and resistance
On June 16, a young white man motivated by white supremacist ideologies entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a…
The civil religion of “I have a dream”
This Wednesday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark "I have a dream" speech and the…
New York Transit settles over headwear discrimination
Several news outlets have covered recent news of a settlement between the New York City Transit Authority and the United…
HI governor vetoes civil unions bill
Citing her belief that the debate over civil unions should settled by referendum and not through the state legislature, Hawaii…
Still the two Americas
As Barack Obama stood on the stage at Grant Park in Chicago on election night, my euphoria yielded to a…