Discussions of capital punishment do not often address how death sentences affect the people who are left behind.

Bishop Pates heard a cry for help in the detention center. After he left, he called on Congress to pass the DREAM Act.

Mr. Cardenas’s lawyers argued that Texas authorities had not properly informed him that as a Mexican citizen he was entitled to legal aid from the Mexican consulate.

Except for crimes committed on federal land, state law governs what constitutes a sex crime, and the definitions vary.

The nation has changed, once again. This time we are becoming more Latino. The demographic shift is not the future; it is the present.

It costs more to be poor in the United States.