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Essays May 12, 2025 4 minutes As I Think about Pope Francis By Joe Weil Joe Weil, a poet, professor, and Catholic, reflects on the death of Pope Francis, what he loved about the man, and what he hopes ...

Joe Weil, a poet, professor, and Catholic, reflects on the death of Pope Francis, what he loved about the man, and what he hopes the late Pope sees differently on the other side of this world.

The Senior Senator from Oklahoma joins Merion West editor-in-chief Erich J. Prince to discuss his new book "Turnaround: America's Revival," as well as reflect on President Trump's First 100 Days.

“A pair of discarded headstones/Lay in the wild weeds:/Cracked, faded, apart, lost” ...

Originally published in late 2020—a year when many called for a national "moral reckoning"—this personal essay by Alexander Zubatov draws on his family's journey from the Soviet Union to New York in ...

Erich J. Prince, through a series of interviews and delving into the data, seeks to determine why so many Americans spend so much time in school but seem to have learned far too little, as well as ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

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our yard sale hearts, our porch light out. Katie Kenney is a recent graduate of University of Denver’s Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University.

I want to save California and America from the dangers of artificial intelligence.