Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.

Join the editor in chief of America magazine for a conversation in the comments section on Friday, Sept. 18, 1 to 2 p.m. ET, about the magazine’s coverage of this historic election.

An ambitious computer training program for at-risk youth seeks to be an engine for building a middle class for El Salvador.

The faithful must stand against measures that dehumanize asylum seekers and welcome immigrants among us.

The church in the United States is not a monolith. It is a network of affiliated but legally and financially independent institutions.

The editors of America have weighed in on these cases in previous editorials, which offer some helpful perspective.

Answer's to 2020 “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.

Welcome back to “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.

This summer, America will shift to a monthly frequency, but our position in relation to the news cycle has not changed.

Most of us believe in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a country where people are “judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” But we do not live in such a country, not yet anyway, Matt Malone, S.J. writes.