If we cannot control violence in the world, we can try to limit the damage.

Governments must reject the misguided trend of prison privatization.

God inflames the human heart with a deep desire for unity.

We invited some friends to recommend to our readers in very few words a favorite book and author.

Acts of charity, however well meant, sometimes are not enough to help people in need.

Solidarity in Seoul; The Pope's New Book; On Being 'Had'

The Obama administration must urge Israel to halt settler expansion and guide it back to the negotiating table.

According to the Syrian novelist Dima Wannous, the seed of Syria’s Arab Spring revolt was planted in Damascus in February 2011. A policeman insulted a shop owner, and a crowd of young workers and traders formed chanting, “The Syrian people cannot be humiliated.” The interior minist

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Who Cares? Tracking Bigotry; Demographic Detonation