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If the Catholic Church is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?

Even if we like President Obama, do we want him to be a one-man death panel?

The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Opponents of gun control spent the last twenty years undermining local approaches to gun policy.

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

What can we expect from comprehensive immigration reform? In this Nation Conversation, Aura Bogado breaks down the range of possibilities for America's undocumented.

It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.