The notion that asylum seekers are traveling thousands of miles to exploit a so-called loophole is absurd.

If begun, impeachment could succeed in the House, but conviction and removal from office would almost certainly fail in the Senate along partisan lines.

The U.S. Supreme Court is bedeviled by never-ending questions about capital punishment that underscore the practice’s capriciousness and cruelty.

On April 2, the Vatican released “Christ Lives,” the third apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis.

From 1933: Prohibition has been a bitter experience, and a time of disaster.

From 1954: The turn taken in the McCarthy-Stevens hearings beginning May 4 dramatized across the nation the grave constitutional issue posed by Senator McCarthy’s “methods.”