Editorials

The visit of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, to the United Nations General Assembly in New York during the week of Sept. 23 presented a sad series of missed opportunities. The city’s tabloids, with their vitriolic headlines, and pressure groups, with their hostile protests, express

The United States is in danger of losing the war in Iraq. The risk of defeat is real, despite the modest military successes described to Congress last month by U.S. General David H. Petraeus. For the war primarily requires a political resolution, not a military one, and in this area even the Bush ad

Addressing a humanitarian crisis

U.S. News and Catholic colleges

The rise and fall of Alberto Gonzales

Sick children are a nightmare for any family. But if the presidents 2008 budget is accepted without substantially increased funding for the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, or S-chip, millions of children will lack needed medical care when illness strikes. Created 10 years ago as a federal-

The time is ripe for labor reform.

To connect with God, it is sometimes necessary to disconnect.

Politicians pushing shopping carts down supermarket aisles are not an ordinary sight. But some in public office have been doing just that in accepting a weeklong challenge to experience the difficulties of living on a food stamp allowance of barely more than one dollar per meal. This year Congress m

Americans have finally accepted the need for “greener” living.