Politics & Society

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman Democrat from New York, takes a selfie with Democratic Representatives Ann McLane Kuster of New Hampshire and Barbara Lee of California on the first day of the 116th Congress on Jan. 3. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is one of 28 new Catholic members of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
How many members of the new Congress are Catholic?
By Michael J. O’Loughlin
Do we need a wall? Here’s what people on the border think.
By J.D. Long-García
Could mandatory national service bring down the walls that divide us?
By Maureen Mitchell
Infographic: An alarming forecast for a world in need in 2019
By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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News & Analysis
Tax incentives for Amazon? Less than prime.
By The Editors
Could mandatory national service bring down the walls that divide us?
By Maureen Mitchell
Romero House: A place to call home for refugees in Toronto
By Dean Dettloff
The rate of uninsured children is growing. We must stop it.
By The Editors
Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration
If we really want to scale back our reliance on prison, we need to change how we approach violence, and most people—politicians, reformers, the public—seem unwilling to do this.
John PfaffDecember 21, 2018
World News

Confronting femicide in Brazil

Ms. Morais’s death is a notorious example of an everyday horror in Brazil and other Latin American states: the crime of femicide. In 2017 at least 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
By Filipe Domingues

Theresa May fumbles toward a no-deal Brexit

The British state continues to make preparations for the growing possibility of a no-deal exit, an outcome sufficiently plausible that it is spending large sums recruiting new staff and renting warehouse space for key supplies, such as E.U.-produced medicine, that may abruptly prove hard to come by.
By David Stewart

What are the dangers of artificial intelligence in our brave new world of self-driving cars?

America This Week
November 16, 2018
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What are the dangers of artificial intelligence in our brave new world of self-driving cars?
America This Week
November 16, 2018
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Is there a ‘civil war’ in the Catholic Church?
America This Week
November 13, 2018
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How can we cure gun violence?
America This Week
November 07, 2018
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Choosing the Right Godparent
America This Week
October 31, 2018
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Rethinking what it means to be ‘college material’
America This Week
October 17, 2018
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Immigration
What is the Catholic response to immigration?
Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller delivers a Catholic response to the issue of immigration at the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, Texas.
Ciaran FreemanDecember 21, 2018
A migrant rests inside a blanket tied to keep him from rolling off the spectator stands at the Benito Juárez Sports Complex in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In an overcrowded Tijuana shelter, asylum seekers from Central America begin a long wait
Thousands of caravan migrants now wait in tents at the Benito Juárez Sports Complex in Tijuana, unsure if they will ever be allowed to enter the United States.
Jan-Albert HootsenNovember 30, 2018
Migrants, consisting of mostly women and children, who disembarked from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus, wait for a Greyhound official to process their tickets to their next destination at a bus station in Phoenix May 29. (CNS photo/Samantha Sais, Reuters)
The faithful deported: Study details impact of Trump’s immigration policies
The “Catholic Removal Impact Survey of Society” surveyed 133 deportees to provide insights into the effects of deportation on immigrants and their families.
J.D. Long-GarcíaNovember 13, 2018