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To understand the Vatican’s crackdown, look beyond the politics of abortion and same-sex marriage to the theological conflict raging in the Catholic Church.

These ten leaders are using their wealth of knowledge to attack a root cause of social dysfunction.
 

The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.

Witnesses whose false testimony sent Troy Davis to death row are now trying to do the right thing. Will Georgia?

The time is ripe to correct this injustice, now that Cuba has begun to release its own political prisoners.

Corruption scandals, a threatened gag order on journalists and investigators, and persistent allegations of Mafia ties—not to mention the long recession—have weakened Italy’s prime minister.

BDS has become a key battleground in the struggle over the future of Israel/Palestine.

The Catholic Church's moral authority in the secular world is the most detestable aspect of the current scandal.

The G-8 powers are willing to do just about anything to get a deal in Copenhagen. But the urgency doesn't come from a desire to stop climate change.

Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.