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President Donald Trump, center, surrounded by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., speaks to reporters before a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Politics & SocietyNews
Kevin Clarke
“These proposed changes threaten access to care for millions of Americans, particularly those in underserved areas, where our member systems work every day to provide quality, compassionate care.”
A woman holds an American flag as people gather ahead of the inauguration Mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 18. (OSV News photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Timothy Shriver
Leo has sought to be a uniter calling for a more peaceful world. We need leaders who remind us of what is possible, who bring out the best in us while discouraging the worst.
A destroyed St. Matthew Church is seen June 27, 2022, in the village of Daw Ngay Ku, Myanmar, in eastern Kayah state. Myanmar’s military junta was accused of blowing up the Catholic church with landmines and torching it. A more recent church attack blamed on the junta was the burning down of St. Patrick Cathedral in strife-torn northern Kachin state on March 16, 2025, the eve of the revered saint's feast. (OSV News photo/courtesy Amnesty International)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
“I’m glad that there are people still coming through,” Zomi leader Francis Kham says, but refugee resettlement “should be extended to everyone that’s really [facing] the same discrimination.”
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home, which cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care and PEPFAR-supplied anti-retroviral drugs in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luke Messac
The longer PEPFAR remains hobbled, the greater the number of patients who will suffer the terrifying consequences of stopped treatment—a kind of reverse Lazarus effect.
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Estefanía Salazar
“My brother has never committed a crime in Venezuela or elsewhere. His only mistake has been to enter the United States as a migrant. He has been labeled as a Tren de Aragua member just because of his tattoos.”
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.