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California Dreaming? A Donald Trump campaign sign along a highway near Los Banos, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott

The real alternative government in the United States is not the federal Democratic Party, but the state government of California.

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Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors

The “transportation prison” is trapping more and more people in the United States.

Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change went into effect on Nov. 4, a landmark deal to tackle global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming warmer even faster than scientists expected.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis praised the 100 countries that joined the Paris climate agreement but emphasized that implementing it must involve multidisciplinary cooperation and special measures of solidarity with the poor.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”