October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq

Friday rsquo s post prompted quick but thoughtful responses from the Cato Institute rsquo s Ilya Somin and Reason magazine rsquo s J D Tuccille First Somin elaborates at The Volokh Conspiracy on his alternative to the pursuit of social justice at the ballot box ldquo voting with your feet rdquo

This is the sixth entry in the Second Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary You can find the first entry here nbsp In the first entryI discussed introductory matters such as the origin of the Church in Thessalonica its early history with Paul Silvanus and Timothy and al

While European leaders ponder the problem of how to humanely respond to the armada of refugees emerging from North Africa for a perilous crossing across the Mediterranean, a United Nations expert today urged the international community to focus on the human rights situation in Eritrea, a country man

As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th

The latest blog from Robert David Sullivan at "(Un)Conventional Wisdom"

Select articles by one of America's most challenging and talked about columnists

Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea

Not long ago I was working with a young couple, preparing for marriage.  

Earlier this week I wrote about the possibility of more women running for office in the United States In something of a one-step-back development a new voter ID law in Texas could make it more difficult for some women to vote The problem is that the law requires a voter to produce a photo ID with

Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” first appeared on Broadway in 1944, beginning what would be a wave of great American plays about troubled families. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” William Inge’s “Picnic,&

In May 2013 America published "Just Economics," an article by Stacie Beck that sparked a lively and ongoing debate about social justice advocacy and Catholic social teaching. Here you will find Beck's piece along with several responses from our contributors and readers. We en

Amid rising expectations that the Catholic Church might make it easier for divorced and remarried members to receive Communion, the Vatican's highest doctrinal official reaffirmed church teaching barring such persons from the sacrament without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriage.Bu

Eleven years is a long time to devote to answering a question. But that is how long I have been thinking about this one: “Are we winning?” In 2002 I returned from my first tour in Afghanistan. The United States was still reeling from the savage blow of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,

Perhaps the fastest growing “religious” demographic among Hispanics is the unaffiliated.

Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates watching Greek armies,Roman archers, legionnaires armed to the teeth, Britishforces, American military, empire-building further, furthereast and south across your deserts, hills, ravines, cities,villages, their shape-shifting alliances, offensives, counter-insurgencies, crush

Jesuit Refugee Service is serving thousands of internally displaced Syrians.

The country with the largest number of people in modern slavery is India.

It is Aug. 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, and Albert Aaron stands on a corner on the East Side of Detroit, political flyers in hand, ready to chat up anyone willing to hear why his candidate should be the city’s next mayor. Three weeks earlier Detroit made national headlines with the lar