Not only is the immigration system broken, but the conversation around it is as well. Far too frequently, we become polarized.

Asked Thursday if there have been times when he had to resolve legal questions that conflict with his Catholic faith, Thomas said it has not been a problem for him.

Many of the short stories in Danielle Evans's new collection address the reality that so many of our current conflicts center on how to understand, heal from, punish, honor or make amends for past actions.

Human beings matter to our common life regardless of whether they are seen as independent and productive members of society.

Or at least trying to.

America’s top military chief was scorched by right-wing media outlets after book excerpts depicted a series of pre-emptive moves, not to protect the nation from a new terrorist threat but to save it from its outgoing president.