Little or no hope for thousands stranded at border

The Border Patrol has caught 363,300 Central American family members at the Mexican border since the fiscal year started in October.

A marked shift in sex-trafficking defendants

The new faces of sex trafficking are increasingly white, affluent and well-connected. In an indictment unveiled July 8 in the Southern District of New...

Beto O’Rourke’s ambitious presidential run hits a roadblock

Things have gotten abysmal for Beto O’Rourke. Not even a year ago, he came closer to winning a statewide office than any Texas Democrat in two decades...

India budget a stimulus for affordable housing

Invoking the teachings of Lord Basaveshwara, a 12th-century social reformer who advocated the idea of the welfare state or Kalyana Rajya, the Budget w...

'Black lives don’t matter'

Ebola is declared a public health emergency of international concern in Congo. I don’t know how much more is done beyond this declaration, besides the...

Up in arms

Michael Jansen

Four months after the March massacre of 51 Muslim men, women and children in two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, gun owners have beg...