Kevin Clarke

New York

Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent at America Magazine

Chief Correspondent for America magazine (https://t.co/0rYgcfZSRO; @americamag). Send pitches/story ideas for Dispatches to [email protected].

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Articles

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Pope Francis, Trump, jubilee and debt forgiveness

3 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Pope Francis has been promoting Jubilee 2025, which began in December, as a year of spiritual renewal for the people of God, but he has also connected this jubilee year with a call for debt forgiveness for nations in the developing world, which are struggling with fiscal burdens that prevent basic national investments in education, health care and human development.
How do contemporary believers treat Jesus?

3 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourth Week of LentFind today’s reading here. He was a burning and shining lamp,and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish,these works that I perform testify on my behalfthat the Father has sent me. (John 5: 35-36)I went to Northern Iraq-Kurdistan in 2018 a few months after the Islamic State had been driven from the region by U.S. and Iraqi coalition forces.
Catholic Relief Services responds to Myanmar earthquake disaster

3 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Speaking from Yangon, Myanmar, on April 1, Cara Bragg described a nation still reeling from the effects of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Southeast Asia on March 28. Ms. Bragg is the country representative in Myanmar for Catholic Relief Services. “It’s just really wide-scale destruction that has interrupted people’s lives, caused many deaths, caused many injuries,” she said.
How Trump’s deportations are testing the boundaries of presidential authority

4 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)As a candidate, Donald J. Trump made no effort to obscure his plans for a vast clampdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
How Trump’s deportations are testing the boundaries of presidential authority

1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)As a candidate, Donald J. Trump made no effort to obscure his plans for a vast clampdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
After Trump and Zelensky’s disastrous White House meeting, European bishops express solidarity with Ukraine

1 month ago | catholicoutlook.org | Kevin Clarke

Europe’s Catholic bishops issued a strong statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine “amid deepening geopolitical complexities and uncertainties” days after an unprecedented Oval Office blow-up between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. A visibly angry Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian delegation to leave the White House on Feb.
Worst violence in years in Syria revives fears among minority Alawite and Christian communities

1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Syrian government forces are deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)Reports of massacres and intercommunal violence in Syria this month have been devastating to Syrians who hope for a future of interreligious peace in the embattled nation. That vision was set back dramatically in the hours following an ambush of forces loyal to the current Sunni-led government in Latakia province on March 6.
No waivers for Catholic relief efforts: The devastating impacts of the end of U.S.A.I.D.

1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Somali internally-displaced persons (IDP) children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)Many heads of humanitarian relief and development agencies once supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development have followed a simple strategy since President Donald Trump’s inauguration: Keep your mouth shut and your head down and stay focused on your work.
What Does it Mean to Be a Man Today?

1 month ago | playgirl.com | Kevin Clarke

You grew up in suburbs of Paris, a straight Martial Arts fighter turned model/actor. Why were you drawn to the world of Martial Arts, and how does that sport relate to your idea of “being a man”? I started with martial arts at the age of six. It was an attempt to cure the developmental coordination disorder I was suffering from as a kid. As a teenager, I didn’t fit into the established social and educational patterns of the world around me.
Finding our way to salvation

1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

A Reflection for Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary TimeFind today’s readings here. “Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.”They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves,“Then who can be saved?”Jesus looked at them and said,“For men it is impossible, but not for God.