Elizabeth Bruenig
She was previously an opinion writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post, where she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She has also been a staff writer at The New Republic and a contributor to the Left, Right & Center radio show. She currently hosts a podcast, The Bruenigs, with her husband, Matt Bruenig. Elizabeth holds a master of philosophy in Christian theology from the University of Cambridge. At The Atlantic, she writes about theology and politics.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. What It Means to Forgive the Unforgivable
James Barber killed Sarah Gregory’s grandmother in 2001. What connects them now?
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … Don’t Execute People in Public
But don’t execute them in secret, either.
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty A Country Governed by Fear
How America became a violent society
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Getty Why Won’t Powerful Men Learn?
No law and no regulation yet has been ambitious enough to solve the problem of rich and unaccountable men.
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Jon Brenneis / Getty Sick All the Time
If the pandemic ought to have given us anything, it should have been a more universal empathy toward the condition of illness.
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Trent Parke / Magnum A Prayer for Less
Pleasure is vast, cheap, kaleidoscopic. Lent is the time to forgo it—and seek peace.
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Alessandra Benedetti / Corbis / Getty; Pfeiffer / … Pope Benedict XVI and the Church After the Fall
He saw the magnitude of the damage the Catholic Church had inflicted, and his retreat came nearest to acknowledging it.
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California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation / Getty Alabama Makes Plans to Gas Its Prisoners
After a series of botched executions, the state is choosing a path of technical, rather than moral, innovation.
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Getty; The Atlantic Too Wild to Love
Texas must have taught me what beauty is, because I still search for it everywhere I look.
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Getty; The Atlantic A History of Violence
Why does Alabama keep botching executions?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty On Murders Especially Heinous, Atrocious, or Cruel
The death-sentence trial of the Parkland shooter was an exercise in finding explanations where none existed.
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Matthew Busch / The New York Times / … Death of a Sinner
A Texas prisoner fought for the right to have his pastor pray over him and lay hands on him during his execution. Now his pastor reflects.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Alabama Department of … Dead Man Living
What happened when Alabama tried and failed to kill Alan Eugene Miller
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John J. Custer Dead to Rights
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution?
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Reuters / The Atlantic Should the Parkland Shooter Die?
A Florida jury will have to render a judgment only heaven can make.
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AP; Getty; The Atlantic Texas’s Season in Hell
Summer in Texas is a tense, precarious time, and it always seems to build inevitably toward a catharsis that doesn’t arrive.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Make Birth Free
It’s time the pro-life movement chose life.
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Jim Vondruska / Getty Coming Undone in the Age of Mass Shootings
Living like this is unbearable.
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Monte Draper / Bemidji Pioneer Press; Andres Gonzalez; … Souvenirs From a Civilization That Kills Its Children
A visual record of the artifacts that accumulate after school shootings.
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The Atlantic; images courtesy of the Muessig family Dan Muessig’s Last Days as a Free Man
He was once the weed kingpin of the Pittsburgh metro area. Now he’s serving five years in federal prison.
