Armstrong's book exhibits a massive amount of research and is a handy compendium for the genre of musical theater. It also has a strong, Trump-defying thesis, that Broadway musicals are "created almost entirely by people who were marginalized -- immigrants, Jewish, Queer, Black,...and women."

The progressive voices of Catholicism have taken heart at words from Dilexi Te, Leo’s first teaching document: “In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”

Seattle's downtown has one of the highest vacancy rates in the country. Luring people back to downtown will require a new vision for what it could be.

You do not need to be paranoid to imagine how Trump could snuff out American democracy.

With the Secretary of Defense’s decision, Rickert writes that Hegseth was not erasing woke politics and preserving real history, as he claimed, but “protecting a lie.”

Yesterday, Trump announced the renaming of eight agencies. “As with the Department of War, the new names will clarify the agency’s mission, improve morale, and make them more assertive and goal-driven."