Dear Sisters and Brothers, Israel has as much right to a nation-state as Palestine, or Iraq, or Iran, or India, or the United States, or Great Britain, or Germany, or Russia or […]
Recognize All Aspirations: A Letter to the Editor
We Remember
Marie Bellin, long-time friend of the Merton Center and admirer of Thomas Merton. Marie was a faithful member of the Thomas Merton Study Group in the earlier years of the Center. She […]
TMC Fundraising Dinner with Mayor Peduto
By Molly Rush
Trump’s Assault on Public Service
By Charles McCollester President Trump’s government shutdown was a cheap, tawdry, fear-mongering piece of blackmail designed to assert his will over Congress and possibly impose a shameful border wall, even if it […]
Looking for the Helper in the Rio Grande Valley
By Symone Saul In December of 2018, I observed first-hand the humanitarian crisis at the so-called Texas-Mexico border and found volunteers and activists working outside traditional bureaucratic systems to address long-term and […]
Yemen Can’t Wait
By Joyce Rothermel Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, is currently facing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis; the United Nations reports that half of the population is already facing pre-famine […]
Jair Bolsonaro and the Destruction of the Amazon Forest
By Michael Drohan Brazil elected a new President of the country in October 2018 named Jair Bolsonaro. He took office on January 1, 2019. Bolsonaro is reckoned to be a Trump on […]
Why Pitt’s Grad Students Need a Union
By Neil Cosgrove When graduate students at the University of Wisconsin successfully formed a union in 1969 they made headlines because such an entity had never been seen before. But now, according […]
Introducing Pittsburgh’s International Women’s Strikers (PGH IWS)
By Krystal Knight and INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE USA CHAPTER While 2016 was a tumultuous year for women globally, here in the U.S. most would attribute that to the catastrophe of the Trump […]
Wendell Potter Addresses “Medicare for All”
By Theresa Chalich With the 2020 U.S Presidential primary campaign underway, health care remains a top concern for voters. Sometimes it seems there are as many health care reform proposals as there […]
