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The actor’s distinctive combination of politics and meme silliness is a pleasure worth indulging.

Are you between age 16 and 60 in a part of the global South targeted by the Pentagon? Until proven innocent, you’re counted as a combatant if hit.

On the divided reaction to the announcement of Pope Francis I.

The “preferential option for the poor,” the once-radical idea that God identifies with the oppressed and impoverished, has been mainstreamed as Catholic theological doctrine.

A radical proposal would go well beyond controlling the most aggressive semi-automatic rifles and curbing arms sales to the world’s worst dictatorships. It would also demand a change in our …

The Dodge Superbowl ad celebrates a type of farming that corporate agribusiness has all but obliterated in the past fifty years.

Accepting change became the less painful option for Boy Scout leaders. And the result is a small but significant stride toward justice.

With 7 out of 10 Latinos voting to re-elect Barack Obama, Republicans are debating whether to alter their hardline immigration stance.

Of more than 4,500 “Supercenters” and other retail locations in North America, not one is home to a unionized workforce.

A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.