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Belsy García Manrique, a student at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, with her father, Felix.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
Belsy García Manrique is a year away from realizing her dream of becoming a doctor—and her father is awaiting deportation.
Protesters gather near the Manchester Central Fire Station in Manchester, N.H., Monday, March 19, 2018, where President Donald Trump madee an unscheduled visit. Trump is in New Hampshire to unveil more of his plan to combat the nation's opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Karen Clifton
To suggest the use of the death penalty as a way to address the opioid epidemic ignores what we know already to be true: The death penalty is a flawed and broken tool in the practical pursuit of justice.
(Photo: Redd Angelo/Unsplash) 
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
Mr. Trump campaigned as uniquely qualified to improve the infrastructure of the United States, but he has so far made little discernible progress in this area.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ellen K. Boegel
California, it is argued, cannot be permitted to enforce this law, which levies fines for noncompliance, against centers whose “sole mission is encouraging expectant mothers to give their children the opportunity for life.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Maureen Smith - Catholic News Service
The owner of the state's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, filed suit immediately after Bryant signed the bill, claiming it is unconstitutional.
The question of whether students at Catholic high schools should be cut off from programs that benefit other students is being debated in Vermont and across the nation. (Images: iStock, Wikimedia Commons; Composite: America)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
While the vast majority of Vermont students are eligible for the vouchers, which pay the full cost of up to two college classes, students who attend religious and other private schools are not.