Our nation’s culture of violence is out of control. It’s time to pull the trigger on efforts to reduce gun deaths. Sounding Boards are one person’s take...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Our country’s drone policy has been operating mostly behind closed doors. According to law professor David Cole, that’s a troubling reality for a program that...
Students at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia worked together to construct a rain garden outside of their library. The idea took root to help reduce...
Rules of engagement for targeted killings have been shrouded in secrecy. According to this legal expert, we still need more transparency. David Cole is no...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a city of great cultural diversity. I arrived here after working for 10 years with undocumented immigrants in Tennessee and...
Numbers of poor people in the suburbs are growing twice as fast as their city counterparts. But many of these picket-fence poor don’t know where to get help—or...
Spending a night sleeping outside shouldn’t lead to a criminal record. Sounding Boards are one person’s take on a many-sided subject and do not...
New laws restricting voting rights hit African Americans and the poor particularly hard. That, of course, is no coincidence. Two dozen fragile, white-haired...
When the rich get richer and the poor struggle to stay afloat, someone has to step in and level the playing field. And according to economist Charles Clark, no...
While the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 truly begins with the founding of the United States, the common practice of slavery, and the Civil War, the...
