The results of the Senate's investigation into C.I.A. practices presents a serious moral challenge to all Americans.

Isolation has been given 50 years to “work” in Cuba; that has been more than enough time to demonstrate its ineffectiveness.

Vatican suggests that the church’s conditional acceptance of deterrence is no longer functional.

Administration action on immigration is only a first step in long road to comprehensive reform.

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New law provides additional oversight and training for federal child care program.

There's been startling growth in the number the nation’s homeless children in recent years.

Campesinos agitating for land rights, journalists and human rights activists face violence and intimidation.

Today H.I.V. remains the world’s leading infectious killer, taking 1.5 million lives last year.

Francis has rarely been more plainspoken than when talking about the 'terrorism of gossip.'