U.S. agriculture is facing a silent crisis.
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The Editors: Children’s health insurance deserves more than life support from Congress
The willingness to use CHIP as a bargaining tactic highlight the misplaced priorities of the current congressional leadership.
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The Editors: Pope Francis needs to restore trust in response to sex abuse crisis
While Cardinal Law’s funeral is held at St. Peter’s, the church is still waiting for the formal renewal of the pope’s sex abuse commission. More transparency is needed to build trust in the church’s commitment to reform.
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Merry Christmas from the Editors of America
We at America Media are profoundly grateful to our readers, donors and supporters for sharing your gifts with us.
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The Editors: The decline of data under Trump is hurting Puerto Rico
Future historians may have no idea how many people perished in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
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The Editors: The G.O.P. tax plan is deliberately designed to collapse
For poor and lower middle-class taxpayers, the bill will mean regressive tax hikes after a few years.
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The failure of the Dream Act would be a moral crisis—and a call to action
Catholic leaders have been vocal in their support for the Dream Act. The question is whether strongly worded statements from the U.S. bishops and others will be enough to shake Congress into action.
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Responding to sexual abuse will take years—and it should
If the tragic revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis are any guide, the process of reckoning with problems that have been avoided for decades will itself take decades.
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Our enforcement-only immigration policy is torturing our brothers and sisters
An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy is not a threat to U.S. national security.
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The Editors: two good things trapped in a bad Republican tax bill
Cutting the corporate tax and limiting the home mortgage deduction are welcome reforms, but not in service of a windfall for the wealthiest households.