“My folks taught us that if someone is hungry, you feed them. That if someone is thirsty, you give them drink. If someone is a stranger you welcome them into your home.”

Almost all major cities in the United States have experienced major decreases in violent crime over the past 25 years.

This is not a country at ease with itself, if it ever were. The United Kingdom continues to display more and more intolerance and anger.

Instinct, emotion, intuition—all those elements that make politics, well, politics—still matter.

Immigration officials “no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement” and “have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws.”

An official said that green-card holders and dual citizens of the U.S. and any of those countries are exempt. The new draft also no longer directs authorities to single out—and reject—Syrian refugees when processing new visa applications.