Preparations are beginning to deport families fleeing violence in Central America. Here are some suggestions about how to respond.
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J., is the editor in chief of America Media.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Martin Shkreli’s fraud did not occur in a vacuum.
When we enjoy our outrage and savor Martin Shkreli’s defeat, we might not notice that such outrage is, in this case, the voice of conscience.
Posted inIn All Things
Abortion clinic violence isn’t the biggest issue in the Colorado tragedy: mass shooting violence is.
No one is served by rhetoric that suggests that pro-lifers have “incited” this violence.
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Watching ‘Spotlight’: what a priest who discerned his vocation during the Boston scandals learned
It was all the more gut-wrenching for being so good a film and for telling its story so carefully and fairly.
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Dog whistles instead of dialogue—that’s what the Planned Parenthood videos have achieved
Why the accusation of “selling baby parts” resulted in us never getting to really talk about abortion.
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H is for “Hubris”? What Google’s Alphabet restructuring tells us about its goals.
Google’s co-founders are after something more than profit.
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Jon Stewart signs off warning us against “bulls**t”—but is vigilance enough?
The best work on “The Daily Show” helped unmask our self-deception, but that only gets us halfway to the real goal.
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Deceptive editorializing: looking at the coverage of the Planned Parenthood videos
“Deceptive editing” is used to dismiss the videos, but deceptive editorializing is at least as big an issue.
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Planned Parenthood videos: what you need to know (UPDATED on Aug. 27)
An overall look at the Planned Parenthood undercover videos — updated on August 27 with information on the most recent video
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Why is #IfICouldTalkToGod trending on Twitter today, and what does it mean?
For a hashtag that started with fighting giraffes, a lot of people are taking it very seriously.