Jim McDermott, S.J., America's Los Angeles correspondent joins Matt Malone, S.J., and Sam Saywer, S.J., to discuss the church's reaction to California's new assisted suicide law.
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Writing a new pro-life agenda
Texas decision will embolden pro-choice lobbyists to target abortion restrictions in other states.
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What’s on your child’s summer reading list?
When my brother Dave and I were very young our father, a journalist who, probably because he couldn’t afford college, had gone right into newspaper work when he returned from World War I, would grow agitated when he saw us reading comic books. I remember him saying he had read all of Dickens a
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Summer conventions must maintain civility, but not squelch protests.
Summer conventions must maintain civility, but not squelch protests.
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In Libya, the U.S. continues a long tradition of arming future enemies.
The United States has a long history of arming its enemies.
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Brexit Reactions from Ireland
Rhona Tarrant, America's Dublin correspondent, joins Tim Reidy and Ashley McKinless to discuss reactions from Ireland to the U.K.'s referendum to leave the European Union.
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Why responding to Brexit isn’t so simple
Brexit revealed a fundamental divide between the political, financial and journalistic leaders of the United Kingdom and the society they putatively lead.
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Dan Barry is a national columnist and reporter for The New York Times and the author of a new book, The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland. The book tells the story of dozens of men with intellectual disability who spent decades working at an Iowa turkey-processing plant, living in an old schoolhouse, […]
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Doubling up on boycotts
“If you boycott Israel,” said Gov. Cuomo, “New York will boycott you.”
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The economic poverty crisis in Puerto Rico sheds a light on child poverty.
It is hard to imagine the U.S. government would ignore such persistent poverty levels on the mainland.