Elizabeth Bruenig

After submitting Kenneth Eugene Smith to a failed lethal-injection execution in 2022, the state is now preparing to try again, this time with a novel method.

What death-row inmates said as they prepared for their execution

Why I put my tree up before I carve the Thanksgiving turkey.

Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July commemorate events. Halloween memorializes the occasion of death.

The president of the United Auto Workers is part of a tradition that was once far more visible in American public life: the Christian left.

Being anti-war isn’t naive, but a serious, considered, and humane position.

In liberalism, as in life, children throw things into chaos and uproar.

The Church’s official teaching on vaccines requires a kind of nuance missing from today’s public life.

The main character’s flaws are a reflection of our own.

Mocking the unvaccinated dead does not save lives.