Bishop Robert Barron says he hates the tribalism eating Catholic social media, the scapegoating mobs, the little liberal and conservative teams throwing punches at each other online. He has a point. Anyone who has spent ten minutes in Catholic Twitter knows exactly what he means. But the timing of that complaint, arriving after a year in which Barron himself became one of the more polarizing figures in American Catholicism, deserves a second look. Fifteen years ago, then-Fath

In 2007, the Ministry of Education slipped a new word into the official Chinese lexicon, sheng nu, meaning leftover women, borrowing a character from the vocabulary of expired food. Officials wanted earlier marriages. They got a national vocabulary problem instead. China's one-child policy left the country with roughly 30 million more men than women of marriage age. Among the specific cohort born during the one-child-policy years, Dongguan shows the widest gap in the country,