Many could be deported next week without having had the opportunity to arrange custody for their children, dispose of their property or arrange their finances in Ohio.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders gather to ask: Can Catholic social teaching overcome polarization?
Catholics are called “to become missionary disciples, to go out of our comfort zone.”
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Millions could lose food stamps under new Farm Bill
House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
50 years later, what can Americans learn from Robert Kennedy?
R.F.K. never talked down to the country he sought to lead; he aimed to lift people up, to engage and move their hearts and consciences.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remembering R.F.K, 50 Years Later
Chris Matthews’s cri de coeur for a time and a spirit that is hard to imagine now.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Infographic: Revisiting R.F.K.’s poverty tour
Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
What is the greatest threat to democracy in the U.S.?
Ninety-one percent of respondents to our survey told us that living in a democracy was either extremely or very important to them.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Puerto Rico death toll could be 70 times higher than originally reported, study says
A new study from The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the actual number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is close to 5,000.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How to survive Trump: End the cult of the presidency
The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Creeping Normalcy of School Shootings
Apparently, just about everything contributes to gun mayhem in the United States—but not the 300 million guns themselves.