Violent confrontations between protesters and police left more than two dozen people dead.

On January 28 President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address in which he outlined a progressive agenda for the year to come The president spoke on the need for immigration reform educational advancement furthering services to our armed forces and injured veterans providin

At The Atlantic Kevin Roose author of the forthcoming book nbsp Young Money Inside the World of Wall Street 39 s Post-Crash Recruits briefly previews his three-year journey with upstart tycoons-in-the-making eight young quot Wall Street workers quot According to Roose life in Manhattan was

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan: Party leaders make great punching bags.

Reforms are aimed at forcing millions of people capable of work off unemployment benefits.

New aid package raises relief commitment to $1.7 billion, but access still an issue.

The Common Core is heading the way of the Affordable Care Act into a rising wave of opposition Apparently it is not what people expected Long opposed by conservatives the New York Times reports that quot the newest chorus of complaints is coming from one of the most liberal states and one of

ldquo Oh brothers They love to see a big man fall rdquo The voice is that of our novice master at St Andrew on Hudson in 1956 not referring to any particular politician but rather to the president of a Jesuit University who as a result of some internal upheaval had resigned Father Master r

Educators must invite students to see vocation not as a job but a path to spiritual freedom.

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend made possible by our commemoration of national leaders widely considered weak and ineffectual while in office I rsquo m referring to Presidents rsquo Day or Green Lantern Day as it should be known among political scientists frustrated by those insisting th

In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians the situation when Paul wrote to them when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote based on the com

Rarely has a film haunted me as much as Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's French language film, "The Past." It is a story about dysfunctional families and their miscommunications, secrets and lies.

Pune India I am at the end of more than two weeks here in Pune I resided during my stay at the Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth something like ldquo The School of Wisdom Light of Knowledge rdquo home to the Jesuit de Nobili College and Papal Seminary moved here from Kandy Srilanka soon after Indi

Law requires children to be "conscious of their decision" after "repeated requests to die."

Jana Riess read all 1,189 chapters of the Bible and composed a tart tweet about each one.

On February 7 nbsp President Barack Obama signed the Agricultural Act of 2014 into law The Act is being hailed as a seminal bipartisan piece of legislation with a heavy focus on helping farmers Mr Obama emphasized the fact that the bill would help rural communities in regards to economic develop

In the Wall Street Journal today a couple of items of interest for educators The first is a story about the lawsuit filed by the University of Notre Dame against the Obama administration concerning the contraception-coverage requirement under the healthcare law In quot Judges Push Back on Notre

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

In December Seattle University joined the list of Catholic colleges and universities fighting to prevent their adjunct faculty from forming a union Provost Isiaah sic Crawford addressed a letter to the adjuncts explaining that the university although opposed to their union efforts considered th

Because heaven is all about love, nothing but love can lead us there. One might say, love is God’s GPS, built right into the human heart.