nbsp The president rsquo s tone was measured but the agenda he detailed in today rsquo s inauguration speech was surprisingly robust The president suggested that his final term in office would be dedicated to shoring up the nation rsquo s declining middle class confronting climate change pressi

At an event in Washington last night reexamining the race for the White House and looking forward to the next four years hosted by NPR Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page discussed the fractured cultural climate in which we find ourselves citing the hyper-partisan programming on both Fox News

The American church's widespread and intense commitment to Latin America has waned.

Rethinking the U.S. relationship with Latin America

Governments must reject the misguided trend of prison privatization.

President Obama's 'deferred action' policy yields cautious hope for undocumented youth.

Experiencing New York made me reexamine my prejudices against urban life.

The Catholic Church in the US made the front-page many times in 2012 With a presidential election in November it was no surprise that many of the stories that grabbed our attention related to politics I asked a group of Catholics mdash priests nonprofit heads campus ministers students writers

The visit to Cuba last March by Pope Benedict XVI focused attention on the emergence of the Catholic Church as an influential actor in that island nation. If, by comparison, the 1998 visit of Pope John Paul II was heralded as a watershed in church-state relations in Cuba, the more recent visit refle

Anthony Shadid put his life in harm rsquo s way so many times that his death in February 2012 has come to seem foreordained Here was a reporter who made his name in the crosshairs of war in Iraq of course but also in Israel and Lebanon In 2002 he was shot by an Israeli sniper in Ramallah while