The hourly peals of Big Ben have been a touch of certainty, regular, you may say, as clockwork.

When disaster strikes, houses of worship are often on the front lines, feeding and sheltering victims. Yet churches, synagogues and mosques are routinely denied FEMA aid.

In what is becoming a grim American ritual, mass shooting sites from Sandy Hook to Columbine have been demolished and then rebuilt.

The new legislation has the backing of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Cutting the corporate tax and limiting the home mortgage deduction are welcome reforms, but not in service of a windfall for the wealthiest households.

There is little question that what the government is doing is not only illegal but inhumane and unnecessary.