Hundreds of organizations across the country are doing the hard work of bringing people together for civil debate and thoughtful reflection.

The willingness to rush the border fence despite the I.D.F.’s overwhelming firepower is a testimony to the despair of the people living in Gaza.

As states continue to close large state-run institutions designed to house large numbers of people with cognitive disabilities, the United States faces a new crisis: a shortage of new nonprofit group homes.

Excess opioid pills can fall into the wrong hands, but we should not respond by denying relief to millions with long-term or intense pain.

Advocates of programs to support non-public schools say that they are implemented at the state level within existing agencies and question the claim by Ms. DeVos that a federal law would lead to more bureaucracy.

The effects of white privilege in law enforcement makes it clear that the promise of racial equality in the United States is still unrealized.