Chief Justice John Roberts says, with his best nice-guy smile, “If it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time?” It’s not about choice, he believes, but if he humors us for a moment and lets us run with the idea of choice, why can’t…

It’s Sunday morning, and before my Zoom church service, I turn on the television to check the news. By 9 am in California, anything could have happened in Washington, D.C. Suddenly I’m watching a just-posted 12-minute video of the armed attack on the Capitol ten days earlier. Writer Luke Mogelson…

“I was walking to class when I heard gunfire. I flattened myself on the ground,” my friend Susana said. I gasped. She had never told me about this brush with death though we had known each other for 25 years. …

A few months ago, I didn’t know that saying “All lives matter” could be racist. Now I see it’s like changing Jesus’s words “Blessed are the poor” to “We are all blessed, not just the poor.” Today there’s a spotlight on black lives because of the deaths of George Floyd…