Economy
Manufacturing hungers for workers
Manufacturing is becoming too successful for its own good. The sector is growing so fast that it cannot find enough people to fill open positions, and that…
April 16, 2019
Magazine - Features
Waiting for Catholics to vote as Catholics? Don’t hold your breath
In 2013, Thomas Tobin, the Catholic bishop of Providence, announced that he’d registered as a Republican. It caused a minor scandal, not because a bishop declared partisan…
Magazine - Features
Putting the fear of God into the Chinese Communist Party
Wang Yi, the 45-year-old essayist and civil rights lawyer-turned-Protestant pastor, has scared the Chinese government. We know this because they’ve silenced him. He has been detained, along…
Magazine - Obituary
Obituary: Charles Van Doren
If French scandals are usually about money and British scandals about sex, American scandals tend to be about ethics. And every now and then, from the Black…
Immigration
GOP sets sights on asylum regulations
Both the White House and Republican lawmakers are looking for ways to narrowly change the nation’s immigration policy to stop a massive surge in illegal immigration along…
Magazine - Your Land
Early birds
A “baseball hangover” isn’t what happens to an adult who downed a few $9 brews at the ballpark. It’s the distant look of sleep deprivation in the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The tipping point
As our van turned onto a skinny dirt road between two soybean fields on the first of a five-day dove hunting trip in Córdoba, Argentina, I honestly…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Dr. Mel and Mr. Brooks
Directing his wife Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning in their ill-advised 1983 remake of the classic comedy “To Be or Not to Be,” Mel Brooks began “berating…
Magazine - Personal Finance
Then and Now: From Eostre to Easter
The celebration of Easter marks the time of year when Christians celebrate Christ’s resurrection following his crucifixion. Many Christians consider it more significant than Christmas since it…
Magazine - Your Land
Replacing ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek will prove a difficult task
Since 1984, people have heard announcer Johnny Gilbert exclaim, “This is Jeopardy!” and then watched Alex Trebek host the Merv Griffin-created show. Sadly, with the announcement earlier…