Who has the stature to bring together a crowd of talented performers so diverse as to include Bruce Springsteen Dave Matthews Joan Baez Dar Williams Emmylou Harris Kris Kristofferson Michael Franti Tom Morello Arlo Guthrie Roger McGuinn Steve Earle dozens more of the shining lights of Ame

Subscribers can read nbsp our editorial in America online here but here s a few snippets in advance The clouds roll with thunder the House of the Lord shall be built throughout the earth and these frogs sit in their marsh and croak mdash lsquo We are the only Christians rsquo rdquo So wrote

A half-century of warfare against the split infinitive the misplaced modifier the obfuscation of plain language and even the gratuitous use of a serial comma was recognized earlier this month as various media outlets celebrated the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White the venerable writing guid

From today s Los Angeles Times a story about a college student who has taped Planned Parenthood employees in various states suggesting she lie about her or her boyfriend s age after she posed as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion Journalists nbsp might note the absurd linguistic hoops the Times cop

While today we celebrate our own planetary home with Earth Day the Philadelphia Inquirer s Faye Flam nbsp reports from a nbsp meeting in England that scientists have discovered the most Earth-like world yet orbiting a star 21 light-years away nbsp Previous discoveries or inferences since de

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America s first issue on April 17 1909 nbsp To celebrate a century of weekly Catholic journalism the editors and staff of America are inviting all friends of the magazine I suppose foes are invited too to a special Mass of Thanksgiving to be held

Archived coverage of the installation of Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of New York is available here on NY1 nbsp America associate editor Matt Malone S J was part of the broadcasting team for the mass in St Patrick s Cathedral America associate editor Joseph O Hare S J nbsp also offered

The bishop of Lincoln Nebraska Fabian W Bruskewitz nbsp weighed in last week on the controversy over the University of Notre Dame inviting the President to speak at this year s commencement ceremony nbsp Why is he writing nbsp Because Fr Jenkins CSC the president of Notre Dame has som

There is a surefire cure for pride, however, and it is as simple as a reminder of some of the moments when we got things just a little wrong. Or a lot wrong.

In anticipation of Bob Dylan s new album Together Through Life out at the end of the month author Bill Flanagan interviewed him for Times Online nbsp The interview covers everything under the sun and Dylan s as weird as ever but the nbsp chat is fascinating for its glimpses of how the