Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout...
Jon O'Brien | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
American Catholics can picture themselves as patients, and want to be able to get birth control and condoms at their doctor. They also think they can speak for themselves.
Chad Dobson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
One German participant summarized: "The IFC places all of the burden of environmental and social safeguards on the client ... The whole world is re-regulating and you should too."
Jay Mandle | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Progressives have typically avoided addressing the way the electoral system is financed. They have concentrated on the outcome of politics, but not on the political process.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
What I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sunglasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun.
AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
CHICAGO (AP)-- A newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders and a law professor trying to get people to forget the way they think ab...
Judi Jennings | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
It's going to take a lot of straight talk and a commitment to finding common ground about what is best for women and their families to achieve health care reform.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Is the path from opportunity to outcomes guided by a set of rules that can be considered fair?
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
In his speech last evening, Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for -- reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.
AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
I was wrong. A few weeks ago I wrote that maybe now is not the time for health care reform, after two stimulus packages and a cap and trade bill. I have since changed my mind.
Judi Jennings | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
By understanding the history behind Women's Equality Day, we can clarify the interconnectedness of the forces that maintain global systems of oppression by denying human rights, and we can shape new strategies effective in countering those global forces.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
Tanene Allison | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
Over the last forty years, we have turned a lot that was once taboo into less taboo conversation topics. And yet, it is still rare to hear open conversations about financial details.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
On this anniversary of our Lunar achievement and the graduation of my class of 1969, I wonder if there is any more immutable thing than the ephemeral moment of a winning touchdown.
Billy Shore | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
Social media can't ensure social justice. But it can affect the invisibility that is the first barrier to achieving it.
Andrew Slack | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
The confidence demonstrated by Harry Pottercharacter Albus Dumbledore, is something that has been exhibited by the Dr. Kings, the Gandhis, the Aung San Suu Kyi's in facing great tyrannies.
Michelle Cote | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
"I'm comiiiiinggg!" Tutu sings out from the adjacent room, the words rolling off his tongue in a playfully high-pitched refrain, before he comes wheeling and teetering -- all 5'2" of him -- around the corner of his suite at the Atlanta Grand Hyatt.
Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
What happens if you have a tradition that by its very nature makes people in your community feel alienated?
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 06.25.2009 | Chicago
Raising the U.S. flag upside down is supposed to mean you're in trouble, not cause more of it. But for the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who has been flying ...
Les Weisbrod | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living
The Medical Device Safety Act would restore patients' right to hold the manufacturer responsible when their products are defective.
Norman Solomon | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
Seventy-five years after the start of the New Deal, and nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, the need for basic change on behalf of social justice and ecology is clear.
John L. Esposito | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
Obama's performance in Turkey was flawless; he met the expectations of his admirers and won approval from many skeptics.
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics