In drawing attention to AI, Pope Leo has acknowledged the role of the church in addressing social needs and promoting greater ...

Proponents argued that tariffs would shield American workers from the socially deleterious consequences of the industrial revolution that were already observable by the early 19th century in ...

Leo XIII applied Catholic tradition to the Industrial Revolution in a historic encyclical called ... “a yoke little better than that of slavery itself,” he wrote. The 19th-century pope refused to ...

Modern protectionists are desperate to find historical examples of tariffs promoting industrialization and economic growth. To this end, they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s ...

Industrialization ... and the United States brought the world into the modern era. Other regions, particularly in Asia, made the transition later. The process continues into the 21st century.