Many could be deported next week without having had the opportunity to arrange custody for their children, dispose of their property or arrange their finances in Ohio.

Catholics are called "to become missionary disciples, to go out of our comfort zone."

House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.

R.F.K. never talked down to the country he sought to lead; he aimed to lift people up, to engage and move their hearts and consciences.

Ninety-one percent of respondents to our survey told us that living in a democracy was either extremely or very important to them.

Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.